ABCs of Web 2.0

 

A - Affiliations with others b/c this is a social web!

   - Aggregators that give you those RSS feeds so you can keep up with your blogs

   - Audio combined with text is great for instructional purposes!!!

 

B - Beta versions are for those who test the software for the rest of us before we receive it

   - Blogging for reflection, sharing, and growth

   - Books for purchase, sharing, reselling, and, this includes e-books

 

C - Calendars for planning, etc.

   - Citizen journalism written by everyday people in the here and now

   - Collaboration between individuals across the globe

   - Collaborative learning and assessment

   - Colors are strong and meaningful

   - Continuous improvement through fluid content and social agreement

   - Communication through various means asynchronous and synchronous

   - Connecting people across communities, cultures, and time zones

   - Consumer control

   - Convergence; e.g., protocol for computers to communicate with each other

   - Conversations: Text, voice, pictures, video--it is all available now!

   - Copyright where works are still protected the moment they are created

   - Creating community in virtual worlds, etc.

   - Creative Commons where works are still protected, yet shared with others

   - Creativity leading to growth

   - Critics of others' websites

   - CSS-Design that helps one to easily mount a website

 

D - Data sharing environment

   - Design, design, design

 

E - Editors of their own or shared work

   - Email is still going strong for communicating

 

F - Filesharing

   - Folksonomy or tagging

 

G  - Google, what more do I need to say???

      Google Earth

      Google Bookmarks

      Google Analytics

      Google Calendar

      Google Reader

      Google Docs

      Google Books

      Google Notebook

      Google Scholar

      GMail

      Google....

 

H - Hackers and hackability

   - Hosting sites for Web 2.0

 

I  - Identity theft

   - Image social bookmarking

   - Image sharing

   - Informal learning spaces

   - Innovation and innovative technology

   - Instant Messaging

   - iTunes for sharing or purchasing of podcasts and videocasts

 

J - Joining users around the world into new social groups

 

K - Knowledge sharing and understanding

 

L - Listservs, still communicating and a way of sharing information for very large groups (international)

 

M - Mainstream media has had to take note of what is happening in 2.0 and has started their own blogs!

   - Mapping history or geographical sites, etc.

   - Mashup brings data from multiple sources into one site; e.g., placing a listing of popular restaurants on a Google Map

   - Microformats (a new way of thinking about and handling data design principle formats)

   - Music videos where you create your own

 

N - News sites that are interactive

   - News aggregators

 

O - Office tools that are free (or you can pay, too!) Gliffy, Writely, Slideshare, Google Docs, etc.

   - Online friends

   - Open source

 

P - Participation required!

   - Paypal necessary for some of those online shopping sprees

   - Personalized learning, at your own pace

   - Photosharing

   - Plugins

   - Podcasting

   - Portals

   - Primary source sites

 

Q - Quick Reference via online chat @ your library

 

R - Remixability

   - RSS, Rich User Interface

 

S - Search engines

   - Security issues

   - Simplicity, which means less can be more!

   - Slideshows shared at anytime

   - Scavenger hunts

   - Shopping (Ebay for resell, but so much more!)

   - Social bookmarking

   - Social networking

   - Social software

   - Syndicated (RSS)

 

T - Tagging and tagging clouds

   - Text messaging

   - 24/7 online access to libraries and information services

 

U - Users are what drive the web!

 

V - Videocasting

   - Video sharing

   - Virtual learning

   - Virtual reference

 

W - Web standards

   - Widgets, such as from Yahoo! that you can use on your desktop for radio, weather, plugins, etc.

   - Wikis

 

X - XHTML Accessibility

 

Y - Youtube, check out the videos that are shared here!

  - Yahoo! for groups that you can join, use its search engine, email, homepage, news, and more!

 

Z - Zimbio is the host for wikizines. Write articles, submit your blog, or create your own wikizine!

 

 

Go here to Dr. Mary Ann Bell's part of the presentation http://forwhomthebelltold.pbwiki.com