"Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies."
This means that most, if not all, of us have used Web 2.0. These web-related advances allow users to interact; not just simply read a mass of content. Web 2.0 makes collaborating on ideas and sharing various information medias easier. I enjoyed reading the articles regarding Web 2.0. I was mainly intrigued by "Web 2.0: A Guide for Educators", and "Teachers 2.0." I did watch Dr. Wesch's video entitled "The Machine is Us/ing Us" video (it made me rather motion sick).
In "Teachers 2.0" under the forums tab there is a tab called lessons, I found the concept of this tab to be brillant. This forum allows teachers, administrators, and bloggers to post lesson plans. But, not just completed lesson plans; they can submit "works in progress" or "needs help" lesson plans to stimulate feedback on way to improve a particular lesson plan. A great use of Web 2.0 collaboration.
"Web 2.0: A Guide for Educators" has several good points as to why it is important that we as individual educators and the education system as whole embrace Web 2.0.
Visual information is everywhere online, and the importance of being visually literate cannot be overstated. Visual literacy has been identified as an essential literacy by Partnership for 21st Century Skills; and with the development of the tools and contributory capacity of Web 2.0, it is critical that schools focus on helping students acquire the skills necessary to navigate, evaluate, and to communicate with visual information.
As teachers we need to apprecitae how Web 2.o tools can allow us to educate our students beyond books and the printed word.
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