Introduction
In 2014, the world commemorates the 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide
Web by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for an
information management system to his boss, Mike Sendall. It was a proposal to develop a
radical new way of linking and sharing information: the World Wide Web
(http://info.cern.ch/Proposal.html). New technologies changed the way of human
communicating and made ‘digital literacies’ a must (Hockly, 2012). In other words, in the 21st
century students will need skills that include “information, media and technology skills”.
The Internet provided great opportunities for learning and teaching foreign languages. C.
Dudeney and N.Hockly (2012) presented a thorough review of how specific developments in
information and communication technologies have impacted on English language teaching
over the past three decades. The major shift was the transition from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0,
which ensured that online users with no programming skills could produce creative resources.
Much of the e-learning since the early 1990s has centered on the Web 1.0 technologies. In
contrast to Web 1.0, which refers to the original informational web, Web 2.0 refers to the
social web. It is a grouping of newer generation social technologies, whose users are actively
involved in communicating and collaborating with each other as they build connections and
communities across the web. The term itself was coined by Dale Dougherty in 2004 and
popularized by Tim O’Reilly (2012). Here is the question to students and teachers: Web 2.0 or
Web 1.0? For the inventor of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, there is a tremendous sense of
déjà vu about all this. When asked in an interview (Anderson, 2007) whether Web 2.0 was
different from Web 1.0, he replied: "Totally not. Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It
was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even
knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people.