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 * This Wiki** is designed to help teachers in Anderson School District 5 make effect use of Web 2.0 tools.


 * Web 2.0** is a term that is widely used and that many people don't understand. It's not complicated, although it might be unfamiliar to you. When the Web first entered popular use in the 1990s it was primarily used as a **source of information**. You'd go to a page, click on a link and jump to another page. You could read the information on that page and possibly download a file or a picture that was posted on the page. It was cool, powerful, useful, and amazingly crude by today's standards. This mostly one-way Internet experience is in contrast to current Web usage, which we generally call Web 2.0. Tools that are considered Web 2.0 are more like online programs, not just information sources. They facilitate collaboration, communication, and creativity in new and exciting ways. Facebook is a Web 2.0 site. So is Youtube. So is Amazon. So are many of the sites you use everyday.

Here's what wikipedia says about Web 2.0: A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of [|content] that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies.

In this Wiki, we're focusing (for now) on two kinds of Web 2.0 applications: Presentation sites and sites that facilitate communication. Links on the left side of the page give you access to sites related to these two functions. We've also added a **Resources** page on which you can find additional links to a host of other Web 2.0 sites. Explore! Enjoy!

Anna Baldwin & Chris Peters Clemson University School of Education