{Session 2 Overview: REQUIRED}

This is the second REQUIRED Web 2.0 session in this online professional development series. Whether you just take Session 1 and Session 2 or this series, or take all of them, please remember that you MUST complete Session 1 and Session 2 FIRST.

After completing Session 1,  it’s time to actually understand a little what Web 2.0 actually is. This second module is a short one. The goal here to understand what Web 2.0 is and how it differs from the old web, Web 1.0 or the “Read Only Web.”

{Objectives}

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

1. Understand what Web 2.0 (Read/Write Web) is and how it differs from the Read Only Web
2. Understand how Web 2.0 has changed the way participants like yourself uses the Internet

{Assignments}

1. View the 3-minute Atomic Learning tutorial, Understanding Web 2.0 - video #32612
2. View the video (below) The Machine is Us/ing Us by Professor Wesch of Kansas State University
3. Answer the two questions at the bottom of this page using the bulletin board
4. Respond/reply to at least two other posts using the bulletin board

{Questions - to be answered on the bulletin board}

1. In your own words, what is Web 2.0? (Use the bulletin board to answer this question)
2. In your opinion what, if anything, is the primary difference(s) between Web 2.0 and the “old” web? (Use the bulletin board to answer this question)

{PDLC Credits Upon Completing Session 2}

1 PDLC non-contract hour