The past five years or so have seen growing excitement within the educational community about web 2.0 technologies. ‘Web 2.0’ is an umbrella term for a host of recent internet applications such as social networking, wikis, folksonomies, virtual societies, blogging, multiplayer online gaming and ‘mash-ups’. Whilst differing in form and function, all these applications share a common characteristic of supporting internet-based interaction between and within groups, which is why the term ‘social software’ is often used to describe web 2.0 tools and services.

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