Web 2.0 Tools Can Be Used To Do Many Things.

When looking at the Web 2.0 Tools I found them very interesting and beneficial in many ways. I personally thought the Mobile Tools were very neat. They had a variety of thing you could use, such as, PollEverywhere, Drop, Phone, and Jott. Out of these tools I found the Jott Tool the most interesting because it has a variety of things you can do. For example, you are able to transfer whatever you say into text. You are able to leave a voicemail with Jott and it will then begin to transfer your voice into text. The program works through a certain process. The voice recording is sent to Jott's automated speech recognition engines where they are transfered to text and is reviewed and is never seen by a specialist. Your message is then gets delivered back to you and anyone that you have chosen to send your message too.

  I feel as if this could be very beneficial in many aspects of education. Students in high school and especially college could use this to record lecture in class so they are able to refer back to the information when it comes time to study for the test. Also, with recording the lectures, it would be beneficial for the teachers because they could post there lectures online that way students who are unable to attend class are able to refer to and online site where the lectures are located. This would help teachers save time and would help the students focus more on the speaker than on writing down notes. Overall, I feel the Web 2.0 Tools could be very useful in education.

Life As A Middle School Student

        The link that I had found was brought to my attention by one of my professor from the education department. The website, It's My Life-PBS Kids Go!, is extremely beneficial for students, parents, and teachers because they're able to see what some middle school students deal with on a day to day basis including friends, family, school, their bodies, their emotions, and online and face-to-face bullying. One of the main things that caught my attention was the online bullying link on the website. It shared how students even in middle school are using the internet to bully other students. Students are using social networks, such as, facebook, myspace, e-mail, and instant messenger. Students are using these resources to target, threaten, and make fun of students. It shocked me that students that are still using instant messaging, are using chat rooms to gang up on other students. With this happening in and outside of schools, it is proving that technology is not always as great as it seems.
        In my opinion, I do not believe that online bullying is all because of technology. I believe that parents should be supervising what their children are going and what kind of social networks they are using. It is ridiculous that children in middle school are already getting addicted to these networks. It would not be a problem if the children were using the networks and technology for education and research, but children are using these sites for bullying. Parents should watch what their children are doing on computers because i can almost guarantee that many of these young children's parents do not even know that their children are connected to any of these social networks.