Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 41

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Web 2.0 Compass Area: Receiving the ‘Mentoring’ prize from the assessor George Glass, UK eTwinning conference, Nottingham, June 2016 I also used this project as an example in a training workshop for teacher trainees at Leeds Trinity University in 2016. Web 2.0 – Definition, History, Future by Adil Tugyan Web 2.0 is the current state of online technology as it compares to the early days of the Web, characterized by greater user interactivity and collaboration, more pervasive network connectivity and enhanced communication channels. One of the most significant differences between Web 2.0 and the traditional World Wide Web (www, retroactively referred to as Web 1.0) is greater collaboration among Internet users, content providers and enterprises. Originally, data was posted on Web sites, and users simply viewed or downloaded the content. Increasingly, users have more input into the nature and scope of Web content and in some cases exert real-time control over it. Diana Linford is a teacher at Steeton Primary School and Eastburn Junior and Infant School, Yorkshire, England and a UK eTwinning Ambassador. The social nature of Web 2.0 is another major difference between it and the original, static Web. Increasingly, websites enable community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. Types of social media sites and applications include forums microblogging social networking social bookmarking social curation wikis 41