Seventh week..

Well, who knew that the WWW that we have been using for this past few years have its own definition and history. Yes, probably,I was lucky to be born in this century, having this technology ready for me.

In this week class, we learned about WORLD WIDE WEB (the internet that always use..duhhh) which is WEB 1.0 as well as WEB 2.0.

But What is WEB 1.0 and WEB 2.0

Web 1.0 (1991-2003) is a retronym that refers to the state of the World Wide Web. Web 1.0 began with the release of the WWW to the public in 1991, and is the general term that has been created to describe the Web.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site gives its users the free choice to interact or collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumer) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (consumer) are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social-networking sites, blogs, wikis, video-sharing sites, hosted services and web applications.

Since WEB 1.0 had long perished from the internet world, the emerge of the powerful WEB 2.0 creates and setting up a new perspective of the world without borders.

We were introduced to some platforms that can be used for teaching and learning science. They are:

1) wikis

2) blog

3) social networking

4) media sharing

We can use these platform to share knowledge and ideas. Based on each group presentations of each platforms, I can identify that there are differences between the application and the functions that provided by the platforms. However, some clear similarity that can be seen between all the platforms are we are able to post comments and communicate through chat box.

Our group we asked to search more about the platform WIKIS .For my surprise, i have using wikis this whole time and i just came to realize that the sites that I have been using is actually a WIKI. One of the wikis that i've been using is googlesites.

Wikis has more flexibility, application and we can control navigation and add anything that we like. We may also chat by adding chatbox and it is more organised compared to blogs that are only represented by entries that are posted. Wikis allows us to change page template and post things like a blog in 'announcement' (one of the template for creating a page)