Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Read/write web

I find the whole web 2.0 movement fascinating. When the internet was first created it was just a wealth of knowledge. A place to access information. Web 2.0 is not just about consuming, it is about creating. And we see that in this class. It is not just about ingesting all this knowledge, we physically apply it (i am doing it right now) by creating these words. By doing these posts we are contributing to Web 2.0. But this really isnt about us, but about our students. It is about what we can bring to our students. And i like that idea. Because our students are going to create a lot, and we are going to help them create a lot, but what can we expose them to, that will spark that one unsatisfied student. Will it be a blog? Or a wiki? A podcast?
I really feel many people still access the internet in the old reality, the old web. Web 1.0. That is something we need to change, we must first change that within ourselves, and then within our students.

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