Lecture 1

 ED2203 – Networked Learning

Week One (2 Aug 2007)

• Web 1.0 is gaining information from the web
• Web 2.0 is constructing knowledge collaboratively on the web.
• Andy Budd
  • Web 2.0
• Web 1.0 à Personal websites, Britannica Online, Content Management systems, directories (taxonomy), screen scraping
• Web 2.0 à Blogs, Wikipedia, Wikis, Tagging (“Folksonomy”), Web Services
• Andy Budd is the Creative Director of Clearleft Ltd, a web design company based in Brighton, UK. Along with other Clearleft members Jeremy Keith and Richard Rutter, Budd organises a low-cost annual web developers’ conference in Brighton called d.Construct. Budd is generally seen as a leading member of the UK web standards scene and regularly talks at conferences around the world. He is also a technical advisor to .net magazine, published by Future Publishing.

• o Accessed 2 Aug 2007 9.00am
• o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Budd
• Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2003^[1] and popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004^[2] , refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services – such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies – which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. O’Reilly Media titled a series of conferences around the phrase, and it has since become widely adopted. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to Web technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the web as a platform. According to Tim O’Reilly, “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.”^[3] Some technology experts, notably Tim Berners-Lee, have questioned whether one can use the term in a meaningful way, since many of the technology components of “Web 2.0″ have existed since the early days of the Web.^[4]
• o Accessed 2 Aug 2007 9.00am
• o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

• Web 2.0 community based; free software (freeware)…
• What is Web 2.0?
  • It is essentially an increasing range of software that supports a variety of technologies for open and collaborative communication, learning and creativity. It requires:
    • A platform
    • Social networking
    • Read/write web
    • Social software
    • Gathering and sorting