A Functional Typology of Web 2.

0 applications for learning

Type of service Blogging/Micro-blogging

Functionality Real-world writing experiences Peer networks for developing knowledge Updating new information and postings Easy dissemination of news and events Collaborative group projects and classroom activities Creating e-portfolios for personalized learning history Collaborative documents and artifacts (books, etc.) Continuous connections with others who have similar interests and purposes of learning Keeping up to date on the field of study or interests Building up professional career networks Accessible favorite and read-it-later links and materials Synchronous via all devices Sharable with peers and colleagues Easy distribution of great sources and open knowledge Sharing interests and exploiting new field of interests Expressing characteristics and finding others who have same fields of interests Automatically Collecting favorite articles and news on the web; thus time saving Professional developments with topic- and authorspecific subscriptions Replacing traditional ways of gathering information such as e-mail and visiting websites Capturing instantaneous and fresh ideas Visualizing thoughts for meaningful retainability Making ideas grow and flourish Personalized online library (Private/Public) Establishing topic-specialized documents repositing Sharing with other and following professionals of a field Specialized web search engines (similarity, relatedness, recommendation, etc.) Visual representation services (presentation, tag, dictionary, etc.) Online designing, creating, and editing tools (audio, image, video, etc.) Converting applications for diverse digital formats such as documents, sound, image, video, etc. Taking notes, screen capture, assessment and feedback tools

Wikis/Collaborating

Social networking

Social bookmarking

Media sharing

Syndication (RSS)

Concept mapping (Self-representation)

Cloud library

Referencing

Other Web 2.0 tools