Web 2.0 initially started for me with the social networking sites. I remember my time in undergrad when facebook was just becoming popular within colleges. Initially this Web 2.0 site was a very basic personal profiling website in which you could communicate with other students around the country. Since then it has really expanded and increased in capabilities.
Recently I had an interesting experience with Google Docs in a Professional Development meeting at my school. Currently we are meeting in small groups each given a task, mine being developing more student centered practices in our classrooms. Several of my fellow teachers and I were working on a document to organize our findings and we had to edit and access this document at the same time. Using Google docs we were able modify the same document at the same time. I was amazed by this because in previous classes taken at TC my group members and I would be modifying the documents at the same time and we just saved several copies and then had to make sure that all copies were up to date with our information. Google docs made the process so much easier.
I am looking forward to using several different Web 2.0 tools in this class as I am always looking for a new technological tools to help develop my practices and make my teaching life easier.
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When teachers get a chance to collaborate with their peers using web 2.0 tools they often begin to see the value of using the tools within instruction. I've been using Google Docs with colleagues in a similar fashion and I know I will soon forget how we worked otherwise.
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