Reflections on Using the Interactive Web in the Classroom

• What does the interactivity of Web 2.0 tools mean to my students?

The use of the internet for sharing, sending, getting informations and take part in projects interactively. They already use Facebook, send e-mails, take and upload photos and videos, chat, play games, and many other applications for their entertainment. The teachers' responsibility to teach them to use these tools for learning.

• What am I (and what are my students) already using on the Internet?

They share documents, watch videos, listen to voices/songs/music and send e-mails.

Web 2.0 tools:

• Digg - a news website where users vote on what appears on the front page
• Wikipedia - a user generated encyclopaedia
• YouTube - user generated video sharing website
  
• BigThink - a forum for new ideas
  
• Flickr - a photo sharing website
• TeacherTube - a video sharing website aimed at teachers
  
• MonkeySee - a user generated 'how to' video site
  
• Podomatic - a website where users can create their own radio style radio shows
• Voicethread - a tool for discussing files and photos
  
• VoxSwap - a language exchange site
  
• Palobea - a language learning site for teachers to teach online
  
• CourseLab -free e-learning authoring tool