READ/WRITE WEB

Richardson opens with an overview of how WWW developer Tim Berners-Lee’s vision or the Read/Write Web in 1989 has come into full fruition with  “an explosion of technologies. This will continue to remake the web into the community, participatory space Berners-Lee originally envisioned, changing much of our lives in significant ways… these changes are already playing our in politics, journalism, and business. From an educational standpoint, this new read/write web promises to transform much of how we teach and learn as well… "In almost every area of life, the Read/Write Web is changing our relationship to technology and rewriting the age-old paradigms of how things work” Pg 2

Highlights
Internet starts as a network of computers with limited access for researchers & government.
1958 → Eisenhower starts Advanced Research Projects Agency [ARPA] to increase US technological advancement in advancement in the shadow Sputnik's launch
1969 → by Oct 29 first ARPANET network connection between two computers

Tim Berners Lee: vision of community driven, participatory Read/Write Web
1989 → develops backbone of WWW Hypertext Transfer Protocol [HTTP]= 
1993 → Mosaic Browser --> WEB 1.0 = Read only [supports use of HTTP, requires HTML]
1999 → Internet = Global Communication & Research Network; Consumer or Push driven
2000 → Internet Publishing Tools Explosion --> WEB 2.0 = Read/Write, Social Media
2003 → 53 million adults or 44% Internet users
2007 → 64% teens creating content
2008 → 65% teems on social networks [e.g. MySpace, Facebook]
2009 → 133 million blogs, increase in social media uploads [YouTube, photos, audio]

                   Web 2.0: AKA "The Read/Write Web" on Prezi

Other Considerations:
  • "The vast majority of educators have yet to experience the transformative potential of new tools in terms of their own personal learning"
  • "We need to rethink literacy to prepare students as readers, writers, editors, collaborators, and publishers."
  • Child Internet Protection Act [CIPA]: teach appropriate use, include parents
Some Terms
Internet - a network of networks [e.g. computer network, local area network [LAN], regional network, cellphone, satellite,..] in other words the hardware.

World Wide Web (WWW) - the system used to access the Internet using hypertext to access the various forms of information available on the world's different networks [email & instant messages are other non http systems that access the internet]

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP ) - the widely used set of rules for how files and other information are transferred between computers. An application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communications for the WWW. 

Uniform Resource Locator (URL) - the address of a web page. Each page has its own unique web address and is how your computer located the web page that you are trying to find. 

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) - Extensive Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) -  Web page programming languages used to describe what's on a page. A standardized system for tagging files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on a page.

Additional Sources:
Richardson, W. (2009) Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts & Other Powerful Tools: Ch 1 The Read Write Web:

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