Web 2.0 Blog #1

The World Wide Web has changed how people accessed information and communicate across the globe. The information highway has exploded with endless pages of material at your fingertips. A "second phase" for the World Wide Web is known as Web 2.0 that is a key element to 21st century learning. Web 2.0 is a social phenomenon where organized and categorized content is both innovative and intuitive. Moving away from static content to a more do-it-yourself, dynamic, open environment has companies, educational facilities and individuals taking the stage. Ideas flow freely and take on life, making innovation available for the masses.
With so much availability to share information, what will happen to the paying world and what you own? New ways of securing privacy and copyrighting will emerge. Technology will no longer be for the elite, as developers become the norm. Systems and software will have to find new ways of inventing themselves.
What will the future hold for Web 2.0? Expansion into the classrooms, where learning environments become a platform for participation. RSS feeds, facebook, wiki's are just to name a few where students, teachers and parents can all participate in learning. Expansion in to the corporate world where employees can work together on projects in ways never done before, collaborate ideas that produce ground breaking technologies and build opportunities that expand the futures of business practices.
Changes occur everyday and for the Internet, changes are occurring rapidly. Many of the young children of today find Web 2.0 a common place to hang out, research and play. Older adults who did not have experience in the computer generation are struggling to keep up with the changing world. As Web 2.0 emerges and works its way into the main stream, companies and schools will need to work out how to use this technology to their advantages by teaching and exposing this technological phenomenon. There is no stopping the advances of technology and the increasing popularity of Web 2.0 therefore learning to adopt to the innovation will be essential.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsa5ZTRJQ5w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP79vYsfbo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BAXvFdMBWw&feature=related