Get to know WEB 2.0

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This week, we were introduced with a new platform of applying technology in science classroom. Through Web 2.0, we could extend our approach of disseminating the knowledge to the students. But, do we really know, what is web 2.0? Let us watch this video first.

In other words, web 2.0 could be define as, a medium that commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web (www). According to Prof. Dr Rohaida, some of the examples of web 2.0 were:

• Social-networking

• Blogs

• Wikis

• Hosted services

• Mashups

• Folkonomies

• Video-sharing sites

• Web applications

Other than that, we were also been introduced with 

>> Blog

>> wikis

>> social networking

>> media sharing.

lets take a look at each of them.

BLOG

A blog originally was a personal website meant to be like a diary or journal.  The word blog is the shortened version of the word weblog. A person would usually create a blog as a hobby to share their information and experience on a particular subject. The blogs are designed to be very easy to add new entries to, so the information on blogs is updated much more frequently than a traditional site. As the blogger adds entries to the blog, the viewers can add comments to the entries, so the blog becomes an interactive site. If the blogger is interesting it does not take long for that blog to create quite a following.

WIKIS

A wiki is a server program that allows users to collaborate in forming the content of a Web site. With a wiki, any user can edit the site content, including other users' contributions, using a regular Web browser. Basically, a wiki Web site operates on a principle of collaborative trust.

A wiki allows a visitor to the "wikified" Web site to edit the content of the site from their own computer. Visitors can also create new content and change the organization of existing content. The simplest wiki programs allow editing of text and hyperlinks only. More advanced wikis make it possible to add or change images, tables, and certain interactive components such as games.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

 Social networking is all about communication. People with common interests are able to share information with each other via a huge variety of social networking sites, sites created specifically to make sharing, communicating, and creating information as simple and efficient as possible.

Examples of social networking sites:

>>Facebook

>>twitter

>> Yahoo Messenger

MEDIA SHARING

Media sharing occurs through online social networks and digital communities with a comprehensive platform and diversified interfaces to aggregate, upload, compress, host and distribute images, text, applications, videos, audio, games and new media. It is the interactive process of sending via email, instant message, text message, posting or linking to media on a website or blog and other methods of sharing media to a targeted audience.