What is Web 2.0?

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  • User Driven
  • Dynamic
  • Multimedia Rich
  • Social

From Wikipedia, Web 2.0 is a trend in World Wide Web technology, and web design, a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies, which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users. See the full Wikipedia article on Web 2.0.

Virginia Society for Technology in Education (VSTE) White Paper on Using Web 2.0 Tools in Instruction


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