In this week's lesson we looked at Web 2.0. The term “Web 2.0” was first quoted more than a decade ago by Darcy DiNucci in her article “Fragmented Future”. She predicted that:
"The Web we know now, which loads into a browser window in essentially static screenfulls, is only an embryo of the Web to come. The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop. The Web will be understood not as screenfulls of text and graphics but as a transport mechanism, the ether through which interactivity happens. It will [...] appear on your computer screen, [...] on your TV set [...] your car dashboard [...] your cell phone [...] hand-held game machines [...] maybe even your microwave oven."
– DiNucci, D. (1999) "Fragmented Future," Print 53
The internet has come on leaps and bounds in the last ten tears and DiNucci’s predictions are frightfully accurate. Web 2.0 has changed the internet from a tool which allowed you to email, shop and research into an interactive, social and collaborative platform which has revolutionized the way in which we communicate and learn. The opportunities with Web 2.0 are seemingly endless. Some examples of Web 2.0 tools include:- youTube
- Skype
- Wikipedia
- Blogging
In schools today teachers and children are using Web 2.0 based tools, to facilitate and enhance their learning, such as; classroom blogs, wikis, podcasts, picture/slide shows, forums and widgets.
Blogs are a great way to foster learning, they are fun, creative and help children to keep up with technological advances.
A good example of a primary school using blogs across the school:
Interesting post Nina, isn't it striking how prescient DiNucci's speculations were?
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