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=Welcome Teacher!= Today we will be exploring the vast world of Web 2.0 for the classroom. We will be exploring ways that teachers have used free web tools in the classroom, as well as create our own spaces on the net. We will uncover resources for teachers that already have established networks of participants.

**Introduction**
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**What is the New Web or Web 2.0?**
"**Web 2.0**" refers to what was perceived as a second [|generation] of [|web development] and [|web design]. It is characterised as facilitating [|communication], [|information sharing], [|interoperability], and [|collaboration] on the [|World Wide Web]. It has led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, [|hosted services], and [|web applications]. Examples include [|social-networking sites], [|video-sharing sites], [|wikis], [|blogs] and [|folksonomies].

The popularity of the term Web 2.0, along with the increasing use of blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies, has led many in academia and business to coin a flurry of 2.0s,[|[14]] including Library 2.0,[|[15]] Social Work 2.0,[|[16]]Enterprise 2.0, PR 2.0,[|[17]] Classroom 2.0, Publishing 2.0, Medicine 2.0, and Government 2.0.[|[18]]

Citations: Wikipedia

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