Web 2.0 and Social Media-- Blog

I am excited about this class because I enjoy producing videos and publishing them on the web, and I enjoyed watching the introduction videos posted by fellow students. I have a busy life and the slow pace of the class is fine. The world has changed so much in the last couple of decades; more people meet their mates in social media forums than in traditional ones. Social media contributed to the Arab spring, and continues to be used as a political tool around the world to give voices to those seeking their inalienable right to be free.

There is no denying the potential use of Web 2.0 and Social Media in developing effective instruction. In The Republic, Plato concludes that what people call truths are merely shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them. They negotiate meanings to these shadows and call their negotiated meanings truths.  If knowledge is negotiated social constructs, the effective use Web 2.0 and Social Media has the potential issue in a new era in human understanding by expanding learning communities, providing more diverse input. So as this class progress, I look forward to learning the technology and how to effective use Web 2.0 and Social Media to facilitate instruction.