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Making Best Use of Web 2.0 Tools
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What is Web 2.0?
Is it a “new Internet”? Is it new software? The term Web 2.0 may be misleading. It certainly is not a new version of the Internet, nor is it a piece of software that needs to be installed. It is a new way of life on the Internet. In years past, the information on the Internet was based on a “pull” methodology. Meaning, if you needed something, you pulled it from an Internet site that someone else created. That is no longer the case. The Internet has dramatically changed over the last few years. Users can now post photos, create websites, edit websites, upload video and create content for others to use on the World Wide Web! This paradigm shift from a Read Only web to a Read/Write web is called Web 2.0. Users are both readers and contributors. The proponents of this thinking expect that ultimately Web 2.0 tools will replace our common desktop applications that we have to buy today.
It is important to recognize that Web 2.0 is simply the same Web that we have had all along. The problems, issues, and technologies we are dealing with are different in many ways now versus five years ago, so using the term "Web 2.0" is a recognition that the Web is in a constant state of change. We have entered a new era of networked participation.
This networked participation means that the new Web is YOUR Web. It’s the same Internet that you are used to, just customizable to YOUR needs and expressions now.
Technology Lab 1 ~ Miss Reid
St. Pius X School
75 Upper Loudon Road
Loudonville, NY 12211
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