Understanding a new age of media

The phrase Web 2.0 was a phrase that I had never heard before. So when researching I felt it was important to understand where this phrase came from and the connotations it has. When looking into this I came to understand the meaning behind this and the history behind it starting.
Below shows a definitive table I found online explaining exactly what is meant and the transitions this has taken.
I think this shows a clear explanation of definition and clear examples of each, which really helped me when starting to understand.

I can now use this to further my research and understanding during this module.

	Web 1.0	Web 2.0	Web 3.0
Definition (According to Burners-Lee)	Read-only	Read-write	Read-write-execute
Technologies associated with the era	File and Web Servers Content and Enterprise Portals Search Engines (AltaVista, Yahoo!) E-mail (Yahoo!, Hotmail) P2P File Sharing (Napster, BitTorrent) Publish and Subscribe Technologies	Ajax and JavaScript frameworks Adobe Flex Enterprise Jave, Microsoft.NET Framework (Server side) Blogs Wikis Instant Messaging	Semantic Searching Knowledge Bases Ontologies Personal Intelligent Digital Assistants
Precedence Order	First Stage	Second Stage	Third Stage
Type of Web	Simply Web	Social Web	Semantic Web
No. of users	Millions	Billions	Trillons
Basic concept	Connect information	Connect people	Connect knowledge
Associated websites	CNN	Flikr, YouTube, Blogger	GoogleMaps, My Yahoo!
Years	1990-2000	2000-2010	2010-2020
Features	Hyper linking and bookmarking on pages. No communication between server and user. Websites were Static. It allowed only browsing of content.	Better interaction. Includes functions like Video streaming, Online documents, etc. Introduction of web applications. Everything becomes online and stores on servers.	Smart, web based applications and functionalities. An amalgamation of Web technology and Knowledge Representation (KR).

My professional profile

I am an enthusiastically, motivated individual, who thrives off being given new challenges. As well as embracing working within a team, I also love working individually on personal projects. I love learning new skills and I’m always open to new ideas, and theories, to broaden my personal and professional development.

After training In all aspects of Musical Theatre, I then used these skills to go on to enjoy a professional stage career, before moving on to a new challenge of learning and teaching circus skills over in America. This was a challenge I fully embraced and learnt from. Continuing my love of teaching I then returned home and became a vice principal (and then principal) of the dancing school I had grown up in.

Alongside teaching at the dance school, I the  then created new opportunities and personal challenges  by moving into the state education sector teaching a wide range of Physical Education and GCSE Dance.

Now continuing learning through all my experiences and teaching I also now want to fully embrace my professional development whilst studying this as Middlesex University.

Definition- CV


abbreviation for curriculum vitae : a shortwritten description of your education, qualifications, previous jobs, and sometimes also your personal interests, that you send to an employer when you are trying to get a job



A personal profile isn't something that I was familiar with before starting this module, I was aware of how to do a CV although looking at this further i also realised the differences in types of CV's and how they can be often interchangeable depending on what job etc it is that your applying for.
After looking at personal profiles however, I found these are a little more general and done in a more text written format, rather than bullet points or short sentences. I found these to be more attributes rather than giving details on previous job roles etc. After reading a variety of profiles I have decided to write my own as a starting point to this module.

My Personal Profile.

I am an enthusiastically, motivated individual, who thrives off being given new challenges. As well as embracing working within a team, I also love working individually on personal projects. I love learning new skills and I’m always open to new ideas, and theories, to broaden my personal and professional development.

After training In all aspects of Musical Theatre, I then used these skills to go on to enjoy a professional stage career, before moving on to a new challenge of learning and teaching circus skills over in America. This was a challenge I fully embraced and learnt from. Continuing my love of teaching I then returned home and became a vice principal (and then principal) of the dancing school I had grown up in.

Alongside teaching at the dance school, I the  then created new opportunities and personal challenges  by moving into the state education sector teaching a wide range of Physical Education and GCSE Dance.

Now continuing learning through all my experiences and teaching I also now want to fully embrace my professional development whilst studying this as Middlesex University.