Web 2.0 tools are meant to be groundbreaking new ways to share, edit, create, and collaborate content online. It’s also about how easy it is to use when you finally learn. Students and teachers both can easily master the way they use these tools within minutes of learning. Technology has become more accessible and easy to everyone. I think there are a bunch of Web 2.0 tools that will be useful I the classrooms but there are also those that are not. A few Web 2.0 tools that I think are the most useful in the classroom environment are mobile tools and presentation tools. Mobile tools are a great way for turning cell phones that students constantly use into something that they can educationally benefit from. They’re perfect for quizzes or surveys created on apps using our phones. Presentations tools let you break out of that boring everyday PowerPoint slide and allows you to create creative and unique presentations that you can instantly share with everyone. The tool I think that isn’t as useful is the video tool because of child consent laws. As a teacher, you need to get permission in order to get students in a picture let alone a video. It’s more complicated than just recording.
A Web 2.0 tool that I would use is Pinterest. Pinterest can be used by teachers to organize and share anything from lesson plans, ideas, and crafts using a virtual bulletin board. Teachers can also use this tool to network with other educators. This tool is great for a huge amount of information and brainstorming ideas. The visual nature of Pinterest makes it easy to rediscover resources that we have previously saved and to store them under the topic we are researching.
