What is all the hype about
WEB 2.0?
In my quest to
understand, I have put together this page of information and links that you can
use to explore the concepts and examples and learn at your own pace.
To begin with, letÕs
see what OÕRiely says about the question:
What
is Web 2.0?
Now, click here -ˆ This link by itself
is enough to keep you entertained for a few weeks! You can set it to show the most recently added sites at
the beginning. I made it my
home page so that every day, I see the newly added sites.
Want
more? All things web 2.0 Ð lists award winning Web 2.0
sites/appsÉ This is fun but I like
the last one better.
HereÕs
a real Web 2.0 treat! Take a look
at this Oregon elementary schoolÕs web site: Meriwether Lewis Elementary : http://lewiselementary.org/.
They
use Trumba, for their site calendar. Word press for their editing of web documents
and Gallery for a photo display which allows who ever they allow to
upload pictures to their site from their blackberries or digital camera phones,
etcÉ ThatÕs just the
beginning! They have language
translators, maps, blogs, rss feeds, podcasts, and more is added all the
time. It's amazing. I have to wonder, ÒWho has time to do
this?Ó
M Lewis
Elementary has their district boundaries overlaid onto google maps and then
posted on their web site. I want
to know how they do this!!!
Looks like they
use this to overlay: Download of Shape2Earth Beta2 is
found toward the bottom of this blog.
Here are a few more Web 2.0 apps that look like fun!
For fund raising,
this widget is pretty cool!!! http://www.chipin.com/
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Talkr turns text into an audio feed: This is
an example: