ISMTINTERNET AND MULTIMEDIA 2012: WEEK TWELVE

On this week I have learned a lot about Web 2.0 that web applications, features that facilitate participatory information sharing, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. This wasn’t a change of the WEB 1.0 if not just an accumulative information to be shared among people worldwide. The Web was actually the platform that allowed people to get things done.

There are some advantages and disadvantages about Web 2.0 and these are:

One of the advantages that Web 2.0 has is that you can access to information easier and faster wherever and whenever you need; there is a variety of technologies in the teaching learning activities, the possibility to control access to resources by authenticating users, extensive to opportunities of information and collaboration. Of course there are some disadvantages too so these are: An INTERNET connection is required, it offers free things in open source structures, with a rather vague significance, it gives to everyone the opportunity to complain , thus creating a community without rules.

Also I have to say that there are many tools of Web 2.0 that can be used for teaching

Well in our class we can use Facebook as a tool to teach English for example. We can create a group in which we are going to select the students from an English level it could be Fifth level of the Bolivar High school, they will have to comment about a topic that we will provide them, this will help them to interact, discuss and also practicing the writing skill.

Google docs is a free tool that could help students. We think that we can use Google docs with our students to share information, edit it and also we can pass their grades for them to look at them.

Blogger is another tool that you could use with students. For example with our students we can keep a record about the activities we have done in class during the period studied and also they will have to give the reflections each week about the topics studied.

YouTube is a sharing video tool that can help you to share your ideas thoughts trough a video. In our classes we can tell our students to upload a video about a topic they will have to share the links among their classmates and also they will have to send us the link to have a discussion of it the next class.