Web 2.0 builds Virtual teaching club

Web 2.0 Refers to what was perceived as a second generation of web development and web design. It is characterized as facilitating communication. Therefore, Web 2.0 is a new generation and development of the old generation Web1.0 that helps the user publishes, participates, collaborates, shares and displays his ideas and knowledge with others in a collaborative virtual community. It facilitates asynchronously or synchronously the e-learning, distance learning and online courses. Many tools can be used to communicate with others to form a social networking Net, such as black board, online Journal, Twilker, podcasts, blogging, Wikis, emails, tagging, Ajax, and Flicker... Listen to the developer of Web 2.0, Tim O'Reilly giving a short definition to Web 2.0 and as well as the application of Web 2.0 is our daily interactions and communications. Watch three videos from my blogs: http://web2videos.blogspot.com/ That show how web 2.0 does work and offer a soul and spirit to online community collaboration and interactions globally and makes us easily communicate and learn from each other. The historic changes in information are going to force educators to historic changes in teaching and learning to integrate such technologies in instructional process. Web 2.0 ads more opportunities to help students shift to become continual self learners and less dependent only upon classroom lessons. In preparing online units course, I use discussion platform and online Journal to promote students interaction through participating in discussion board and publishing their ideas/reflection on assigned topics in online journal, simultaneously encourages the collaborative working group in multimedia projects on topics given to each group. Groups meet virtually to display their findings in a virtual asynchronous presentation. Each group presents its findings on blogs or Journals for further discussions, comments and response. Simply, this is the way my course ties the students to interact and share experiences.
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