This document discusses Web 2.0 tools and their advantages for education. It describes how Web 2.0 tools allow users to interact and create content online through features like search, links, and tags. Examples of educational Web 2.0 tools covered are Wikipedia for collaborative knowledge building, Twitter for microblogging, Instagram for sharing photos, and Google Docs for real-time collaborative editing. The conclusion states that Web 2.0 technology is social software that facilitates digital relationships and knowledge sharing online.
3. Introduction
• These tools are internet tools that
allow the user to go beyond just
receiving information through the
web.
• The user is expected to interact
and to create content with others.
• Social media sites such as
Facebook and Twitter are
examples of Web 2.0 tools.
4. Advantages
• Available at any time, any
place.
• Variety of media.
• Ease of usage.
• Learners can actively be
involved in knowledge
building.
6. Tools of Web 2.0
1. Wikipedia
2. Twitter
3. Instagram
4. Google docs
7. Wikipedia
1. While the only contact most people
have had with wikis is through
browsing Wikipedia.
2. Wikis are a powerful tool for
employing online collaboration to
allow students to create and modify
their own knowledge structures within
any discipline.
8. Twitter
• Twitter is a free,
platform-independent,
Web 2.0
communication
application that allows
users to send short (up
to 140 characters)
electronic messages to
other individual users
and user groups.
9. Instagram
• This is a great way to
stay connected with
those around you. It
also helps get content
out in the world, at a
very fast rate.
10. Google docs
• Google Docs is a Web
2.0 tool due to its
editing feature that
enables both author
and reviewer to
contribute to the text.
11. Conclusion
• Web 2.0 technology is
social software.
• It has emerged into a
digital-social milieu because
it suits the modes of
interaction favoured by the
many that choose to
conduct relationships on the
Internet.
