I. What is Web 2.0

A)  How has the world wide web changed most recently?

B) Video: "The Machine is Us/in

g Us"

c) Rethinking the role of the Student 

II. A New Publishing Revolution:                                         "The new Web, or Web 2.0, is a two-way medium, based on contribution, creation, and collaboration--often requiring only access to the Web and a browser." -- Steve Hargadon

A) Blogging

Blogging can be defined as an art of posting an authored piece of work in the form or an online log or journal. A blog is a combined word for “web log”.

• Blogger
• 21 Classes
  

B) Podcasting
The word podcast is also used to mean a podcast channel, i.e., a channel that listeners can "subscribe" to and receive future audio posts, or podcast entries, all for FREE. (For technical readers, a podcast channel is an RSS feed, and each audio post is an enclosure embedded in the RSS feed.)

• Gcast
• Podcastomatic
• Voki
  

C) Wikis
A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. The collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. --From Wikipedia

• Wiki Spaces 
• Wiki Sample -- Marta Valle Secondary School (PBWiki)
  

D) Image/Photo Sharing

• Flickr
• Flickr Tools
  

III. Social Networking for Educators
" If MySpace were a country, it would be the third most populous in the world" -- Steve Hargadon

• Ning
• Ning Example -- iTeach iLearn
• Twitter
• EdModo (Twitter for Educators)