Web 2.0 and teaching

Web 2.0 is known as a new and innovator tool  for teaching. This is becoming popular in schools for several reasons, its ability to combine technology with collaboration. Students are easy adaptable to this method because they are familiar with webs like twitter, facebook, blogs, wikis and pages where the interaction is given. and Also, it provides an avenue to communicate with professionals, subject experts and other students who have Internet access.

-Writing can be transformed from a one-on-one communication between teacher and student.

-Videoconferencing brings the world into the classroom.

-RSS, also called Web feeds, are becoming popular with administration and high school teachers.

-Podcasts are gaining popularity, the ease of mass communication.

Taken from: 

Andrew, T. (30 de marzo del 2008). Suite101.com. Recuperado el 27 de Noviembre del 2010,  de http://www.suite101.com/content/teaching-with-web-20-a49204

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Bibliography:

Hot potatoes. document taken from the world wide web retrivered on July, 24th 2010 from: http://www.aula21.net/segunda/hotpotatoes.htm

What is Web 2.0?

The term Web 2.0 is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web (WWW). The term Web 2.0 refers to cumulative changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the Web. The Web 2.0 is meant to be collaborative medium, a place where we could all meet and read and write, which makes it perfect for the Education field. 

A Web 2.0 site gives its users the free choice to interact or collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users  are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. 

Examples of Web 2.0 include:

• Social-networking sites (Twitter, Facebook)
• Blogs (Blogger, Wordpress)
• Wikis (Edmodo)
• Video-sharing sites (You tube)
• Web applications, etc.

Welcome!

Welcome to our blog! In this blog we will share as much information as possible about learning English through the Web 2.0. The authors of this site are July, Darvid and Virginia, we are students of the University of Carabobo, that attend to Education School and which majoring is English Teaching. We are currently taking a subject in the 8th semester called " Material Design for teaching English", this subject is very interesting because it teaches us how to use certain tools (technology type) in order to improve our work as teachers inside and outside the classroom.