There are so many useful and interactive web sites, that I find myself spending an awful lot of time just trying to stay up to date. In fact, this blog is a web 2.0 application. How did we exist BW – before web 2.0? According to WIkipedia web 2.o is ”Web 2.0″ refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that facilitates communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.”
I am constantly sharing my new found sites with teachers and educators. For the most part I post these sites on my delicious account. Another one of those web 2.0 social bookmarking sites. This allows a person to bookmark their sites on the web as opposed to a single computer. This way you can find them from any computer at any time.
There are sites like voicethread, jing and openoffice, to name a few. Voicethread allows you to record conversations around images, videos or documents. If you want to record onscreen actions then jing is the application you’re looking for. And imagine locating your documents on the web through openoffice instead of on a single computer.
It’s up to educators to find innovative and exciting ways to use these tools. Imagine recording a trip through ancient Rome with jing in Google earth, or students actively engaged in peer editing through voicethread. How about adding content in the middle of the night through openoffice. These are only a few of the possibilities.
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