Web+2.0+Tools

Web 2.0

"Students are reaching literally global audiences online. Why would they be motivated to write an essay for only one person?" - Dawn Hogue; teacher, Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin

[|www.43things.com]- a [|social networking] web site that is built on the principles of [|tagging], rather than creating explicit interpersonal links. Users create accounts and then list a number of goals or hopes; these goals are parsed by a [|lexer] and connected to other people's goals that are constructed with similar words or ideas. This concept is also known as [|folksonomy].

[] - Steven Abrams

[] - Participants will spend the next 6 weeks exploring **12 Things**:
 * [|Blogs]- A **blog** (a [|contraction] of the term "**web log**")[|[1]] is a type of [|website], usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.
 * [|wordpress], [|blogger], [|joomla], [|edublogs]
 * [|RSS]**- RSS** (most commonly expanded as "Really Simple Syndication") is a family of [|web feed] formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as [|blog] entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.
 * [|Podcasts] -A **podcast** is a series of [|digital media] [|files] (either [|audio] or [|video]) that are released episodically and often [|downloaded] through [|web syndication].
 * [|Wikis]-A **wiki** is a [|website] that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of [|interlinked] [|web pages] via a [|web browser] using a simplified [|markup language] or a [|WYSIWYG] text editor. Wikis are typically powered by [|wiki software] and are often used to create collaborative websites, to power community websites, for personal [|note taking], in corporate [|intranets], and in [|knowledge management] systems.
 * wikispaces, [|PBwiki], [|Wetpaint]
 * [|Flickr -] An [|image] and [|video hosting] [|website], [|web services] suite, and [|online community]. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by [|bloggers] to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.
 * [|Social Networking]- A **social network** is a [|social structure] made of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes," which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of [|interdependency], such as [|friendship], [|kinship], financial exchange, dislike, sexual or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or [|prestige].
 * facebook, myspace, twitter, linkedin, classmates.com
 * [|Video Sites]
 * myspacetv.com, liveleak, dailymotion, metacafe
 * TeacherTube, YouTube Edu, Edutopia, much more - http://geese230slc.wikispaces.com/Video+Sites
 * [|Twitter] A [|social networking] and [|microblogging] service that enables its users to send and read messages known as //tweets//. Tweets are [|text-based] posts of up to 140 [|characters] displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as //followers//. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access.
 * [|Tagging] - A **tag** is a non-hierarchical [|keyword or term] assigned to a piece of information (such as an [|internet bookmark], digital image, or [|computer file]). This kind of [|metadata] helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are generally chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system.
 * [|Google Apps & Online Productivity]- An **online office suite** or **online productivity suite** is a type of [|office suite] offered by websites in the form of [|software as a service]. They can be accessed online from any [|Internet]-enabled device running any [|operating system]. This allows people to work together worldwide and at any time, thereby leading to international [|web-based collaboration] and [|virtual teamwork]. Usually, the basic versions are offered for free and for more advanced versions one is required to pay a nominal subscription fee.

Definitions came from Wikipedia.com