First Year Experience (Tuscarawas Campus): Web 2.0

"The term Web 2.0 describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, communications, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web."

Read the Wikipedia article on Web 2.0 to find out more:

"Web 1.0 is a term used to describe the world wide web before Web 2.0"

Read the Wikipedia article on Web 1.0 to find out more:

Find many different Web 2.0 technologies at the following websites:

The following pages talk about different types of Web 2.0 applications and provide videos and examples that will give you good background information.:

• Blogs
• Collaborative Software
• Multimedia Sharing
• Podcasts
• Real-Time Communication
• Social Bookmarking
• Social Networking
  
• Social Software
• Wikis

You have probably already used a Web 2.0 application!

Here are a few examples:

• Facebook
• MySpace
• YouTube
• Wikipedia
• Flickr
• Skype
• Digg
• Blogger
• Google Docs

The following articles provide background information on Web 2.0:

This book is not required reading, but it is interesting!