Ahh the wonderful world of on-line living! The Web 2.0 videos indicate where our futures in technology is taking us. As I have said, I am a novice user of the internet, no where near a techie. When I was in high school we used typewriters, and had just started writing flowcharts!!! My world was still pen and paper to scribe thoughts, homework, etc. As our kids are growing up in this modern techonological world, I feel like I am from the dark ages. I have had to teach myself to use the computer and my students seem to come out of the womb knowing how to navigate and communicate through them. I just recently decided to learn Facebook, whew that is time consuming. Why can't I just pick up the phone and call one or all of the people that are connecting!!! You tell everything on Facebook and then see someone face to face and what else can you say to them that you haven't said online.
I realize this is the way of the future or should I say the way of the NOW...I am jumping on this train and trying to learn what I can to be able to communicate to my students. When this class started a friend of mine had told me about www.weebly.com She uses it for her science classes to post homework, notes, ideas, thoughts, etc. I had started my own weebly site, then started this class and my how time-consuming it is. Her students and parents have access to view, read, print, and copy if needed any of the current days works or to see things from days gone be. Web 2.0 has quite abit broader scope than your own website; there's room for connecting, receiving, reading, reflecting and research.
The videos help to put my thoughts about blogging, reaching out, sharing, etc into perspective and understanding that this is the way to connect, communicate and create.
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