Assignment #2

Web 2.0 is again in the spirit of enhancing the classroom and more importantly the world utilizing the technological advances of the day. Web 2.0 most specifically utilizes the World Wide Web to do a variety of things such as promote creativity, create networking connections, and share information on a global scale. Many sites on the Internet are considered Web 2.0 and help to accomplish any of the above goals. Some of the more popular manifestations of Web 2.0 are sites such as wiki pages, facebook, youtube, and hulu. Many more of these sites can be found here.

Teachers in modern classrooms utilize aspects of Web 2.0 all the time. Whether it be having a wiki site for their students to be a part of, posting or having their students posting assignments on youtube, or just creating a social network for their classes. This brings the World Wide Web and technology into the classroom. Something that is important because students are using these things anyway and this helps to teach them new and exciting ways to use these advancements in technology. This is not just a cool idea either, it is real and real teacher use Web 2.0 all of the time in their modernized technological classrooms. The lesson we are creating right now in this very class is a great example of Web 2.0.