Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 describes World Wide Web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier Web sites. A Web 2.0 site may allow users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue

Examples of Web 2.0 include: social networking sites, blogs, wikis, folksonomies, video sharing sites, hosted services, Web applications, and mashups.

Web 2.0 in education:

Web 2.0 is used now in educational field as Web 2.0 technologies can provide students with more engagement through greater customization and choice of topics, and less distraction from their peers. By allowing students to use the technology tools of Web 2.0, teachers are giving students the opportunity to share what they learn with peers. Web 2.0 calls for major shifts in the way education is provided for students as it makes education collaboratively constructed. These tools can be used in :-

1-   Tools that create or support a virtual learning environment. ( blogs and wikis)

2-  Tools that support communication and cultivate relationships.( social networks)

 3-  Resources to support teaching and learning.( online teaching websites and games- teach-ict.com)

4-   Tools enabling students to create artifacts representing what they are learning.(programs and websites that help in making presentations like prezi and

       e-maze)