Web+2.0

Module 2
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= What is Web 2.0? =

"Web 2.0 is the term used to describe a second generation of the World Wide Web that allows people to collaborate and share information online.
==Watch a video clip "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us" created by Michael Wesch, associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. ==

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= Are You a Web 2.0 Educator? =

==In the Web 2.0 educators' classrooms, students do not "spend much of the day as their great-grandparents once did: sitting in rows, listening to teachers lecture, scribbling notes by hand, reading from textbooks that are out of date by the time they are printed." How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century==

==The Web 2.0 educators incorporate into their teaching the Web 2.0 tools: dynamic websites, blogs, video blogs, podcasts, photo and video sharing, feed readers, wikis, social networks, online word processors, spreadsheets, and presentations.==

The Web 2.0 educators:

 * ==have RSS feed readers - RSS or **//Rich Site Summary//** often called //**Really Simple Syndication**//,==
 * ==subscribe to news and blogs in their fields==
 * ==have their own blogs, wikis, and websites==
 * ==share their best practices with others via podcasts, photo or video sharing==
 * ==effectively supervise their students through RSS==
 * ==use wikis and online word processors, spreadsheets, and presentations to collaborate with their colleagues and students==
 * ==adding new technologies to their curriculum.==

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