Blog Journal 5

Web 2.0 tools are necessary for teachers to have in their classroom. I don't think there is one Web 2.0 tool that isn't useful in the classroom. Web 2.0 tools include, but aren't limited to Twitter, blogs, Youtube, and Diigo. A professional Twitter account for the students is a great way for them to connect to other students who are learning something similar in a different place. Blogs work similarly to Twitter and are more for the students to network and share ideas. Youtube helps teachers to find videos that help them teach a lesson or help to keep the students engaged so that the teacher isn't always the only one talking. Diigo can be used by teachers and students and is probably the best way for teachers and students to connect with each other to compare lesson plans, sources, and notes in order to make every classroom a better place.
LinkedIn is an excellent Web 2.0 tool that is mostly used as a bookmark manager in the classroom. LinkedIn is a website for professionals and allows them to connect with one another in order to share and communicate business ideas or, in the teaching world, perhaps lesson plans. LinkedIn is most comparable to FaceBook in that it still doubles as a social network. LinkedIn is just full of more professional relationships, rather than family/friend relationships found on FaceBook. In the classroom LinkedIn is also very much like Diigo in that you can share bookmarked websites with colleagues and communicate back and forth via commenting on each other's accounts. To sign up for LinkedIn follow this URL: https://www.linkedin.com.
Technology continues to advance and with it classrooms are advancing as well. Even though open content has been available to students and teachers for a few years now I think it holds the biggest promise in education. Open content is a very broad term, but that's because it encapsulates so many different ways to access information that is important in the classroom. Open content can refer to access to social bookmarking sites, such as LinkedIn, eBooks, Wikipedia, and other sites that offer online ways to connect and collect information. The technology can become even better by offering ways to have a group video call to share ideas face-to-face or by making more information available to any student or teacher. This information and these websites are utilized by these groups of students and teachers interacting and communicating so that they can further their education and learn more about anything they want to know about.

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