Web 2.0

All I can say is,  “YES!  YES! YES! I’m FINALLY finished!”  Web 2.0 has been a real challenge for me.  I am the type learner who needs to see things demonstrated AND then have someone help me when I’m stuck as I work through it myself.    When help videos wouldn’t work or when instructions were more vague than I needed, my frustration was at its highest.  Thankfully I have had some good friends like Arlie who have given a lot of help…but that’s what a community of learners does.  I’ve learned some really neat things….social bookmarking, social networking sites, using Creative Commons when searching for pictures in Flickr, embedding pictures and videos into blogs, creating slide shows with on-line resources,…even podcasting (to name just a few).  My next step is to practice, practice, practice.  Anyone who knows me knows that the perfectionist in me will drive me to become at least much better acquainted with all this “stuff” before I try to teach it to my students.   I am excited, though, that I now know more than I did about using the internet and about some interesting things that my kids can do on the web.  The first thing I’ll likely do is use social bookmarking so that I can go back and find the resources and ideas I liked the best. 

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