Web 2.0

Features Of Web 2.0

• Web (internet) as a platform
• User generated data/content; control of data they generate
• Data consumption and remixing from all sources (reusable data) including continuous update
• Rich and interactive User interfaces
• Reusable data
• Architecture of participation
  
• Continuous and seamless update of software and data
• Social Interaction/Communities

Using Web 2.0 Tools

• Use blogs, wikis, podcasts, video, elgg, Google docs, Google reader, flash, and other tools to develop projects that follow our students’ inquiries into questions and issues in their lives.
• Connect teachers using blogs and wikis and elgg.
• Have all students register using the following format: Names should be: First name and first initial of last name and initials of school.
• User Names should be the student’s first name and last initial.
• Ask that everyone fills out a profile (in elgg etc.). Students can enter likes and dislikes, interests, favorite books and authors and illustrators, they find other students with shared interests.
• Students and teachers should NOT post photographs of themselves. Please have your students remove photos.
• Let them create and use avatars/icons.
• Be careful about using copyright free or creative commons photos in any elgg work.