Hello Everyone,
My name is
Anita High. I am enrolled through the College of Education seeking a Bachelor’s
Degrees of Science in Business Education/Information Technologies. I am taking BITE 5390: 2.0 Web Technologies to
complete one of the core credit requirements of my degree program; this is my
senior year and I hope to complete all requirements for graduation by the end
of the Fall 2014 semester!
From an educational,
career, and personal standpoint, I want to continuously learn about
new Web 2.0 tools that are currently
being used on the World Wide Web. As a 100% online distance education student acquiring
a degree in Information Technologies, it is extremely important that I am not
only able to interact and participate in the learning environment using these
technologies as a student, but it is also equally important that I fully
understanding how the latest technologies are
being used to support teaching and learning in classrooms as well as how they
are being used for personal endeavors and in the social media.
My first impression of the
overall nature and concept of Web 2.0 was that it’s essentially a variation of software
programs that are used to create and support different types of virtual
learning environments. I quickly learned that it is much more than that. Web 2.0 supports communication and cultivates
web relationships in all areas, on any topic! These technologies not only
provides interactive ways of communication that strengthen the educational learning
environment, they also provides easy accessible means of invoking conversation and
disseminating information on any issue or topic of interest of a personal and
professional level. As web technologies
continues to evolve, it is increasingly becoming an essential and integral part
of the educational environment at all learning levels of the 21st
Century.
