Reading Chapter One, two things became clear to me.
1. There maybe so many cool web tools and individuals can
explore freely as they like. For an educational use, however, teachers need to
select appropriate tools that will enhance teaching and learning. For a person
like me, who is a technology idiot, information about available tools for
classroom use needs to be narrowed down. I appreciate that this class offers
such specific information for teachers.
2. Although I knew technology has rapidly changed and will
continue to change, I didn’t realize there was such a thing as a transition
from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. The text explains that users can be consumer as well
as producer at the same time, and responding the demand of people using digital
tools as a way of self-expression, more new tools have been invented.
I personally feel that I still use Internet more as an
information resource than I use as a way of self- expression. My goal in this
class is to experience a taste of the later in order to push myself toward the
main stream.
