There many articles addressing productivity and Web 2.0 in the work place. When many people think of Web 2.0 they usually think of the social networking tools such as Facebook and Myspace. Actually most people would say “what’s web 2.0?”
“Web 2.0 is social, it’s open (or at least it should be), it’s letting go of control over your data, it’s mixing the global with the local. Web 2.0 is about new interfaces – new ways of searching and accessing Web content. And last but not least, Web 2.0 is a platform – and not just for developers to create web applications like Gmail and Flickr. The Web is a platform to build on for educators, media, politics, community, for virtually everyone in fact!”(MacManus 2005)
Web 2.0 has an ever increasing potential for use in the classroom. Mind mapping software, educational blogs, social networking, wikis, the list can go on. As our students become more and more tech savvy we as teachers will have opportunities to use these new tools not just as novelties in the classroom but as legitimate learning aids.
MacManus, R. (2005, Sept. 7th) What is Web 2.0. Retrieved Nov. 15th 2009, from ZDNet News and Blogs website: http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=5
