Beyond Web 2.0

Welcome to the Beyond Web 2.0 program!

Hopefully you will have completed the original 23 Things program previously, but if you haven’t then you can still easily complete this program. This program looks at some of the newer (and not so newer!) tools on the web which can help bring you up to speed with current technological trends as well as developing your professional skills, and enabling you to provide more attuned service to customers with a broader knowledge of what is out there in internet land!

So, what is Web 2.0 again?

"Web 2.0" refers to the second generation of web development and web design that facilitates information sharing and collaboration on the World Wide Web. The advent of Web 2.0 led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and web applications. Examples include social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies.
The term is now closely associated with Tim O'Reilly because of the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but rather to cumulative changes in the ways software developers and end-users utilize the Web. Whether Web 2.0 is qualitatively different from prior web technologies has been challenged by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee who called the term a "piece of jargon". [courtesy Wikipedia]

But wait, I've been hearing people talk about Web 3.0...

Web 3.0, commonly referred to as the Semantic Web, is an evolving development of the Web where meaning (semantics) of information and services is defined, making it possible for the the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content. It derives from World Wide Web Consortium director Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange. [courtesy Wikipedia]

For a simple explanation about Web 3.0 or the Semantic Web, check out this video

Start The Program

Beyond Web 2.0 takes on a different form of participation than the 23 Things or Learning 2.0 Programs of the past. In those programs, you would create a blog to track your progress. In this program you are going to be using Twitter to record your progress. You will be required to create a Twitter account, submit "tweets" describing your findings for each activity, and learn different ways of communicating through the Twitter platform.

In addition, you will receive a weekly email with extra resources to investigate, as well as hints and tips. Feel free to contact me if you need any extra help or if something isn't clear.

To begin, click on the link to Week 1 below!

Week 1 - Twitter

Week 2 - LinkedIn

Week 3 - Firefox

Week 4 - Open Source & Creative Commons

Week 5 - Online Music

Week 6 - Online Presentation Tools

Congratulations!