Web+2.0

Web 2.0
 * //Web 2.0//** is a trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. The term became notable after the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use webs.

The site I really enjoyed and could really see a practical application in my classroom was @http://letterpop.com/. It is a very user friendly site that could potentially help students to create a classroom newsletter. It could also be used by the teacher to create a weekly coorespondence with parents. There are many levels of subscription to the site. The free version allows 10 published newsletters to be created in a year. This makes me think that it would be great if used monthly during the school year. For $25 dollars a year you could create a published newsletter every week.