Key Characteristics of Web 2.0

• Web bases application can be accessed anywhere anytime.
• Simple applications can solve specific problem 
• Data can be readily shared
• Value depends on content, not the software used to display them
• Social tools encourage users to create, collaborate, and edit informations.
• Distribution is bottom up, not top-down.

WEB 2.0 Tools

Presentation Tools

This tools allow users to upload, create, edit and share creative presentation on the fly. This will see the traditional basic slide and bullet point disappear.

Video Tools

Web 2.0 is designed to make it easier then ever to integrate video into shared projects and presentations with lights, cameras.

Mobile Tools

This tool is excellent for blogging, podcasting, and media sharing. These smart applications turns cell phones into smart teaching tools.

Community Tools

Community Tools like social networks and wikis, allows teachers and students to collaborate and communicate and share works. 

Web 2.0 as a Platform

As known, softwares was created to perform on specific platforms. Fore example, Windows, Unix, Mac OS was specifically developed Operating systems. Today, software developers build web-based application that operate on the world wide web. They are completely independent from the users computer operating system. That where the Web 2.0 comes to allow the use of Web as a development platform.