It was a great presentation (by Prof. Bonk) via our classroom web conferencing equipment. In his presentation and conversation with our class, Bonk described that Web 2.0 is defined differently by different people. It is such a new think that its influence and characteristics are still somewhat being defined. There are many views of what Web 2.0 is, and the main reason for that has to do with the fact that there are so many different applications that are now available via the web. There are many sites out there using a plethora of applications for social networking (Facebook), collaboration (Wikipedia), Web Conferencing (WebEx), Blogs (Blogger) and several others.
One interesting point that Bonk mentioned in his presentation is the fact that there is no debate about the Web 2.0 tools for they are practical tools. Debates can happen on a particular tool, for instance a political debate about current elections but the tool we use is not necessarily the point of discussion. These tools are actually facilitating communication of people that are far away from each other.
Bonk also pointed out that some of these tools, like You Tube, can actually make education more exciting. The short videos with tutorials and explanation of Web 2.0 tools (that we’ve seen in this class) are good examples of that.
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