It does not matter if you are a geek in the use of technology to notice that in the last years the use of apps and social networks has increase that much that those features have been applied in the education field thanks to the web 2.0, the term makes reference to a generation of websites in which people work collaboratively in the building of projects, such thing was not possible before when people were using websites built in static html pages.
The main differences between the web 1.0 and the web 2.0 can be taken from the words of Alberto Ortiz de Zárate Tercero in Manual de uso del blog en la empresa pag 18 in which he describes the web 2.0 as a social phenomenon in relation to the creation and distribution of content on the Internet, characterized by open communication, decentralization of authority, freedom to share and use, within an approach that treats the human and economic relations as conversations. Things like these were not possible before the technology development that helped web 1.0 to reach the level of web 2.0.
Let’s give a look to some tools and applications and what they are.
- A social network is a site that facilitates the building of relations among people who share interest, activities, backgrounds, or real life connections.
- Web pages are the content of the www, and can either be static or dynamic, webmail is any email client implemented as a web application accessed via a web browser.
- Blogs are Web sites that contain an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.
- A wiki is usually a web application which allows people to add, modify, or delete content in collaboration with others.
- Podcast is a pre-recorded audio program that is posted to a website and is downloadable so people can listen to them on their computers or devices.
- Video and image sharing is the publishing or transfer of user's digital files online, thus enabling the user to share them with others (publicly or privately), instant messaging is a type of online chat which offers real-time text transmission over the Internet.
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Facebook
Facebook is
a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study
and live around them. As well as to keep up with them
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Twitter
Twitter is
an online social networking service and micro blogging service that enables its
users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as
"tweets".
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Prezi
Prezi is a
cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards
and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the
connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that
lead your audience down a path of discovery
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VoiceThread
VoiceThread
is a totally web-based application that allows you to place collections of
media like images, videos, documents, and presentations at the center of an
asynchronous conversation and to make comments on them.
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Vuvox
VUVOX allows
you to create interactive slideshows and presentations from photos, video and
music from Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, YouTube, Facebook and more.
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Jing
Jing is
an application; it captures anything you see on your computer screen, as an
image or short video, and lets you share it instantly
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YouTube
YouTube is
a video-sharing website on which users can upload, view and share videos
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Scribd
Scribd is a
digital documents library that allows users to publish, discover and discuss
original writings and documents in various languages
In conclusion we can state that the improvement in technology has changed the way in which we teach and learn English because with web 2.0 we can create new environments that help students to get involved in the processes according with their interests, and using technology we gain confidence in the practice and learning of English on the web helped by an application or a platform.
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