WEB 2.0

UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DEL CARMEN

ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEGREE

ACTIVITY: 1.13

ESSAY- WEB 2.0

Teacher: Rafael Ferrer Méndez

By: Jacqueline Cruz Betancourt

The web 2.0 is the term about second generation in pages web. The web 2. 0 focuses in to share and collaborate information in different pages web. Its predecessor was Web 1.0, but the different between web 1.0 and web 2.0 are “who writes” the information. There are more interactivity with the user, and you can “edit” this information. Web 1.0 just professional people could share information in the net.

“The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O'Reilly VP, noted that far from having "crashed", the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What's more, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as "Web 2.0"”

Due to the emergence of new content on the web, O'Reilly and MediaLive named “web 2.0”. The new content consisted pages with users, users could make information and to shares that information with a community.

Web 2.0 isn’t just for look information, we can use this for teaching or learning, there are many tools for that, for example:

Wikis: one example is “Wikipedia”. We can to share content with a username and password, the students can to make one and to do use of this tools.
Blogs: the students and teacher can public articles, essays, discuss about any topic, etc. Example: BlogSpot.
Galleries: This is more dynamic, here you can find videos, images, audiovisual material that you share with other people. Example: Admire the Web
Forum: You make a topic and people can discuss about it.
Websites: “Sites with content and different functionality that serves as a source of information or as a community support.”

Nowadays, technologies are part of our lives, even if, most of the time we use social networks but there are many benefits from web 2.0 only aren’t the social networks. We can find a lot information on web, we need learn more about technologies, get used to make forums, wikis, galleries and spend less time in other things. 

References:

O'Reilly, T. (2005). What Is Web 2.0 27.09.2016, of O'REILLY Website:http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html

Rouse, M. (2015). Web 2.0. 27.09.2016, of whatsl.com Sitio web:http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Web-20-or-Web-2
Web pedia. (2016) 29.09.2016 of QuinStreet Enterprise. web site: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Web_2_point_0.html