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=Welcome to the WFS Online Learning Page=

Here is a place where we can collect information about Web 2.0 technologies, provide simple to understand definitions, links to examples, pros and cons of each tool, time estimates to get up and running, and names of people on campus who are using them.

Web 1.0 - in order to get Web 2.0, it's probably a good idea to include what Web 1.0 "was". This was the first generation of the World Wide Web. Basically it was a lot of information that you could go look at, maybe some information that you could get by downloading.

Web 2.0 - now there are lots of ways that you and your students can not only read or "get" information from the web, but you can now ADD information to the web. This enables you and your students to share, collaborate, etc.

Think of it like this, TV is like a form of Web 1.0 (you can choose to watch certain shows and even record them, but that's it). The networks decide what's on and when. YouTube is a Web 2.0 version of TV. You can still choose to watch what you want, but now you can put your own videos on there for everyone else to watch. You are like a member of the TV "network".

If you have ideas or suggestions for this Wiki, let me know (or better yet, just edit the wiki yourself). Notice the pages in the left column. Each one is dedicated to a specific Web 2.0 tool. Each page also has a discussion tab at the top; use that to post questions, comments, etc.