Using technology as a learning tool is extremely important. Teachers are starting to explore the potential of Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, media-sharing services and other social software that can be used to empower students and to create exciting new learning opportunities for the students.
E- learning with Web 2.0 tools take an excellent approach that combines the use of different tools and web services; such as blogs, wikis, and other social software to support the creation of learning communities that support student achievement.
Blogging has become very big in education because removes the technical barriers to writing and publishing online and the journal format encourages students to keep a record of their thinking over time. Blogs also facilitate critical feedback, by letting readers add comments that could be from teachers, and / or peers.
I’ve been using blogs for quite a while now and I use them to present my lessons to my students and they do their writing right on the blog. I have wikis which I find them very useful. I have a delicious account which I think is the best bookmarking site there is. While exploring the Web 2.0 applications I found quite a few applications that can be use with my classes. I like Kideos, which has lost of videos for kids.
I also liked Raylit- Fun Educational Online Platform for because it’s a website that is design for young kids and it helps them to achieve their mental and physical development.
Thanks for this solid advice. You're quite a few steps ahead of me in this technology for learning exploration; so I truly appreciate your perspectives. In particular, I'm glad to hear that you're actually using the blogs to provide assignments to your students. I'm curious about how you're allowing them to post their writings to your blog. Can students see each other's work? If so, have you seen any changes in the quality or content of work as a result of this dynamic? At Full Sail, for me, having other students see my work has been very stressful, but I'm coming to grips with it. Ultimately, I think it's a very good thing, it's just a major learning culture shift for me. I'm just not naturally that transparent. I wonder if your students might have expressed a similar impact/discomfort with this practice and how you advise working through that.
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