Web2.0

 Web 2.0 is where web use predominates today. Web 2.0 tools make it easy for everyone to have input to the Web, so everyone talks to everyone in Web 2.0. In contrast, in Web 1.0, as you might remember, one person talked to many people.

Everyone talking to everyone is most vividly represented in the social media, Twitter, Facebook, etc. However, Web 2.0 tools also added new dimensions to business, medicine, education, etc., as it facilitates professional, business, and other transactions, as well as purely social interaction. A significant derivative concept of the democratizing of the web in allowing all with access to the web to participate is that collaboration is enabled. The ability to collaborate has enormous implications in all walks of life.

When Web 2.0 was identified as a significant change in how the Web does business, is when the older, more static, Web was identified as Web 1.0. It also raised the question of "where next?" If there is a Web 1.0 and a Web 2.0, what will Web 3.0 be?

Web 2.0 was only recognized as such in 2007, but antecedents of Web 2.0 recognition could be identified as going back to at least 2001. Was the original Web (arising about 1993 or 94, depending on what is counted as "the beginning") as young as 8 years old, or as old as 14 years old, when Web 2.0 came along? Depending on which dates one chooses, Web 2.0 is now either 4 years old or 10 years old. Given that technology accelerates, should we be looking for Web 3.0 almost any time now?

Look to the Web 3.0 intro page for the continuation of this discussion.

Cute names are more fun than Web 2.1, Web 2.2, Web 2.3, etc., but they also carry some meaning. One does need to "gain" more than just a foothold on these necessities for input and collaboration on an internet that will not be confined to a single computer base. "Transformation" on the second day tells you why and the other days' lessons tell you how. Email (or Gmail) isn't there because it is Web 1.0 technology - still needed, just not new. Blogger is so much of a necessity that it pushes its way to the head of the line.
 * GAIN, GLUE, LESSONS?**

GLUE "sticks" on other things that may not be necessities, but still are pretty important, one way or another. LESSONS? Let us not forget that we are teachers. It is easy to get caught up in snazzy new things, but the point to it all is teaching lessons!