Web 2.0 (Elearning 2.0 Part1)

The Web has evolved from being a information generator through clicks from user to a sharing platform where the user is the seeker and also the provider of information. The platform has given birth to many concepts through which users from varied demographs and locations can share common interest points. This involves :
Podcasts: A podcast is a collection of digital media files which is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers.
Blogs: A blog is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. These entries can be anything from writings, images to videos and can be expressions of the writer, information or creative content.
Social Networks: These are online networks that have something in common.
Wikis: A wiki is software that allows users to create, edit, and link web pages easily. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. They are being installed by businesses to provide affordable and effective Intranets and for Knowledge Management.
The emergence of this sharing platform evolved so much of data that the concept of social tagging or Folksonomy also came around.
Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, social tagging, and other names) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. In contrast to traditional subject indexing, metadata is not only generated by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content. Usually, freely chosen keywords are used instead of a controlled vocabulary. This is used in many network sites like Flickr, Blogger.
Summing up these concepts has brought out Web 2.0. It does not only allow receiving data but also lets the user play around and add to data on the net. The dynamism of web is truly exploited in this concept. Every moment net gets richer with data that is used by many people in different contexts. As the famous interaction designer Oreily sums up in the table given below that how the web sites of Web 1.0 gave way to Web 2.0.
Web 1.0 -->Web 2.0
DoubleClick --> Google AdSense
Ofoto --> Flickr
Akamai --> BitTorrent
mp3.com --> Napster
Britannica Online --> Wikipedia
personal websites --> blogging
evite --> upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation --> search engine optimization
page views --> cost per click
screen scraping --> web services
publishing --> participation
content management systems --> wikis
directories (taxonomy) --> tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness --> syndication
Ref: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Widening Creativity

This brings out many creative opportunities and how every designer must be brimming with ideas. This will leave CDs behind. A revolution in elearning may also come.

http://www.todolistblog.com/

Wow!!!
Sasha Cagen's innovative idea has come a full circle and got published as a book.
She is a writer, author and a successful one too with a famous book credited to her-Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics (Harper San Francisco, 2004).
Now she has come up with To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us (Simon & Schuster, 2007). What makes me awed by this endevour is the use of Blog as a medium to collect content for this book.
She has used her magazine and then her blog http://www.todolistblog.com/ to invite entries from famous names to common people like me. From authors to school teachers everyone has contributed in such a magical idea.
Now her campaign to save hand written to do lists continues on her site.
I think she is the innovative women of our times.