Web 2.0 A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning

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ers-critique the “Web 2.0″ moniker for definitional reasons. Few can …… tation at the Web 2.0 Conference, October 7, 2004, …

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By Bryan Alexander
Bryan Alexander is Director for Research at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education
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chronological structure implies a different
rhetorical purpose than a Web page,
which has no inherent timeliness. That
altered rhetoric helped shape a different
audience, the blogging public, with its
emergent social practices of blogrolling,
extensive hyperlinking, and discussion
threads attached not to pages but to
content chunks within them. Reading
and searching this world is significantly
different from searching the entire Web
world. Still, social software does not indicate
a sharp break with the old but, rather,
the gradual emergence of a new type of
practice.
These sections of the Web break
away from the page metaphor. Rather
than following the notion of the Web as
book, they are predicated on microcontent.
Blogs are about posts, not pages. Wikis
are streams of conversation, revision,
amendment, and truncation. Podcasts are
shuttled between Web sites, RSS feeds,
and diverse players. These content blocks
can be saved, summarized, addressed,
copied, quoted, and built into new projects.
Browsers respond to this boom…