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Prompt #6

A paragraph discussing your thoughts about the use of Web 2.0 technologies in K-12 education. Would you use them? Why or why not? How? Use online resources.

A paragraph discussing your thoughts on Wikipedia as a learning resource.

A paragraph on new skills you acquired in the last week that you think will be especially useful to you in your educational career and why you think so.

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Web 2.0...The "new" internet! I'm all about web 2.0 technologies, even though I knew very little about them prior to this course. I don't think blogging is a very useful tool for educators on a general basis, but I do think that there are ways in which they can be incorporated. It reminds me of when I had to journal daily in my 6th-grade English course, except now it is more blogging than journaling. Interesting transition.

Now, wikipedia, on the other hand, I am not about. I loathe wikipedia and everythin that it stands for. Sometimes, for fun, I write illegitimate ideas and "facts" on wikipedia in high hopes that some lazy college freshman will come along and cite it. Shame on you for being lazy.

Really, though, do people really need another excuse to be lazy? It's bad enough ebooks are obsolete, but now we don't even need them when we have wikipedia there to rescue us! I don't google; I don't wikipedia. I ask Jeeves, and he points me in the right direction every time. :-)

I am very interested in Wikis now. I think I definately spent WAY too much time on mine, then coming to realize it was only worth one point... Oh well, my Wiki is fully functional and logical. Is yours? Just kidding, but really, I enjoyed making my Wiki and think that it will be a useful tool in relaying information to students and parents. I certainly intend to use it in my classroom!