Week 4 - Blog Posting #8 -Reflection on Blogging

Web 2.0 has a lot of features that appeal to me. Especially if they are open source. As a web developer I can add to the features if need be or even take away. There are many strengths that Web 2.0 has to offer as a teaching and learning tool including its ability to adapt to the times and making things easily updatable. Unfortunately the weaknesses are its lack of accountability for student learning which the educator must somehow mesh together. Within my educational setting, which at the present time includes P.E. and coaching Volleyball, mainly includes using YouTube to put up some Volleyball plays and some fun activities to do outside of P.E. (I teach grade-schoolers.) If I end up teaching Art History in the near future I’ll definitely be looking into some tools like Google Docs and such. I’m sure I’ll be using a lot though. Dim Dim is something probably worth using as well. As far as problems go I’m sure they will arise but the great thing about Web 2.0 tools is its adaptability as well as is ease of simply switching to another tool. So many exist out there that there are too many to choose from. I’m definitely excited about using these tools and I cannot wait to use them in the near future.