Web 1.0 into Web 2.0

During my summer semester, I designed a lesson using Web 1.0 tools using one of the activity structures we were studying.  Mine fell under the information collection and analysis category.   The basic idea of the lesson was for students to make observations of the contrails (clouds formed from water vapor in aircraft exhaust) and submit their findings into a collective global database on the web.  Observations would be organized, displayed and available for students/teachers to use however needed, but one person would have sole control of the data.  For everyone else, it would be a ‘read only’ format which is basically what web 1.0 tools are about.

Designing that project using Web 2.0 would mean that all users would be able to write and edit.  I could see setting up the contrails page as a wiki where contrail observers could post their comments and share ideas about the patterns that appeared in the data.  In the Web 1.0 version, it does not allow for discussion between the groups viewing or submitting data.  This way they could learn from each other and sharing information is more interesting to students especially on an international scale.  It would be a more engaging way for students to participate in the lesson using Web 2.0 tools vs. Web 1.0 tools.