Well, I’m back in my office– Starbucks! Planning my presentation for Mission College Flex Day (faculty development day). I wonder how they heck I’m going to explain the concept of Web 2.0 to my colleagues in terms they can relate to?… Suggestions?
Uploaded by www.cellspin.net
Web 2.0 is nothing else than a digital metaphor of the kind of relationships that we have in real life. In my daily life I have friends that I communicate with… I learn from those exchanges (mainly in an informal way) and they learn from me. Then these friends go an “infect” other people.
This horizontal and cumulative distribution of knowledge -that has always occurred- is what, in digital terms, Web 2.0 means.
Make sense?
By: corazondesilicio on January 29, 2009
at 4:41 am
I agree! It’s interesting that some recurring themes of ideas about Web 2.0 fall into two areas– The technological and social! Some of my initial thoughts are that educators have to learn to facilitate or help learners develop methods or models for synthesizing the knowledge and ideas generated horizontally. Its critical that they also understand that they don’t “own” the process, but are “part of it!” This Kaplan University add illustrates my thoughts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e50YBu14j3U&hl=en&fs=1
By: cjpman on January 29, 2009
at 7:53 pm