Web 2.0

After visiting Classroom 2.0 and Ning.com, I honestly have to say that I was quite impressed with what I saw on Classroom 2.0.  I particularly enjoyed watching some of the videos that were posted/embedded.  I watched one by William Lambert in which he showed how to use peg words to remember important information.  (It was called peg1).  I really wanted the video to continue because it was so interesting watching a teacher in a real classroom situation implementing a real strategy.  His use of the workshop method, which we are implementing at my school, was neat to see as was a study technique.   I found myself trying to see if I could remember the random list of student-generated words based on the peg words he had been teaching the kids.  The kids acted like a real classroom full of kids do, and they all seemed excited and engaged in learning.  I also liked the Latest Activity portion because it not only contained an interesting article link by Or-Tal Kiriati on homework and cheating, but that portion is updated constantly.  While I was searching around the different tags, a new blog popped up.  The members tab was neat because it’s nice to “see” and learn a little about the people in your community of teachers…some of whom lived across the ocean.  Another really interesting part was the featured photos… of people who actually are members of this community.  Social Networking could be very helpful in my profession because all the blogs and articles are about things that educators think and worry about.  It lets us know that we’re not the only ones looking for answers, and it gives us a lot of different solutions to consider.    How great to be connected to someone halfway across the world who can offer very perspectives for me as a teacher or offer information for a topic my kids are studying.  Social networking can help professionally and personally by making my searches more focused and by having more than just me searching for solutions/information/etc.   As with anything else, becoming proficient in anything will take time and practice, and having a community of “helpers” makes it easier.

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