What is Web 2.0 and why should teachers know about it?
Web 2.0 provides online tools that allow students to interact, enhance, morph, and create information and then communicate the results to a real audience. Blogs, wikis, photo and video sharing sites are a few of the social interactive components available on the Web. Students and their educators can use these resources to develop a better and more professional learning environment.
What is a Blog and why should every teacher have one?
Blogs are a powerful online tool that expands a learner's experience. They serve several purposes from self-expression to focusing on particular subjects in a classroom. Blogs promote writing, peer editing, and sharing. Students are posting poems, stories, illustrative books, their opinions on necessary events, personal experiences, and school activities. They are a great way for teachers to encourage their students to think on a deeper level and communicate more effectively. The world and technology is changing, it is important that teachers use the new tools to interact with their students and make a difference in their learning.
What are the pedagogical implications of student driven BLOGS in contrast to a teacher-created website?
Student driven Blogs are a productive way for the class to connect and interact with each other. Blogs get the students more involved with the topic, course goals,assignments, and activities. Blogs open a window of opportunity to grow in and outside of the classroom. In contrast teacher-created websites helps the teacher introduce a specific topic for the students to research and report their findings. It allows engagement, exploration, explanation, elaboration, and evaluation, which are key elements in teaching.
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