Web+2.0+-+Collaboration

Web 2.0 refers to the interactive, social, and shared media that have evolved to generate collaboration on the world wide web. The name was coined to differentiate between the internet as it is now, and as it was in the good old days of "ISP" domination when your window on the digital world was defined by entities like AOL. Back then the web looked like the front page of YAHOO for most people and that was it. What changed? Two major innovations (I'm not including all the tech innovation in HTML and web authoring that went along with them) Web Browsers and Search Engines. Now YOU could decide where to go and people could create "findable" public websites. Web 2.0 is all about content created by users and collaboration across time and space that simply wasn't possible before. Since these two big changes, literally thousands of apps, services, and collaborative tools have been created that we use every day.

Those thousands of applications do all sorts of things so I've broken them down into "Collaboration Tools" that I know students will use (at least within their broad categories) and the rest of Web 2.0 which can be tailored to the specific user.


 * These are a few of the more universally useful "types" of Web 2.0 applications and tools we discussed in class.**

Online Word Processors

Whiteboards and Graphic Organizers

Screen Casting (Screen Capture)

Multimedia Creation and Sharing

Photo Sharing and Image Editing

Database Creators

Social Bookmarking and Annotation Tools

Wikis

File Sharing, Hosting, and Storage

Go 2 Web 2.0
This is a particularly good database for Web 2.0 applications that includes a search function, tags, reviews, and other useful ways to find applications you need or want. []