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
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