WEB 2.0 ‘UNIVERSE’ (….any last thoughts???)

YES!!!

Just before we finally take a dive into the infinite UNIVERSE of WEB 2.0, I had some reviews, revision and reflections on work so far (basing my premise on Kolb’s reflective cycle). Ever since we started this TITANIC module, I believe we all (at most, all of us 😀 or at least some of us 🙂 or probably ONLY me 😦 ) will have thought about the volume of the module itself.

Personally to me, WEB 2.0 is a WAY OF LIFE, it’s almost like studying ‘Life’ itself, reason not been far-fetched from the fact that we humans spend an approximate 9 hours of our lives EVERYDAY on the web! That is approximately 30 years of one’s life interacting, communicating, sending, processing and receiving information across the internet!!! Now, I believe you understand where I’m coming from, and with this in mind as a major postulation for why the syllabus seems to be massive, I am of the opinion tha WEB 2.0 should not be just another module.

It should not be just a subject. Web 2.0 should be its own PROGRAM, have its own DEPARTMENT and in fact it’s own SCHOOL! If people get to understand the diversity, expansiveness, extent, range, scope, span, coverage, scale and POWER of WEB 2.0; I’m pretty sure this would be a ‘no-debate’ issue. Lives have been made and broken via this medium, countries have changed legislation because of WEB 2.0 activities, major decisions have been made as a result of data gotten from this medium, in short its power eclectic.

In the shortest of time, we would begin to see concrete and extensive improvements and inventions in the world of teaching and learning. Hopefully I hope to make the most and best use of knowledge gained here to improve my own domain as well as ‘enhance’ the Education experience in my country – Nigeria. Been a ‘rookie’ Educationist, I am yet to experience fully and formally the incidence of ‘teaching’ even though I have previously taught, but with new knowledge gained here and an innovative drive, new learning should not be far.

I really applaud BETH SNOWDEN and RICHARD NELSON for taking it upon themselves to enlighten us on the mannerisms, rudiments and schematics of WEB 2.0. Personally I do not believe I would love to undertake teaching a module like this… where do I start from?!

Thanks to every other person who registered to undertake this course for keeping me company as I envisaged I may be the ONLY ONE IN CLASS!!! :O

I hope we all enjoy and find it easy as we bask in the remarkably multifarious  atmosphere of the WEB 2.0 UNIVERSE.

WEB 2.0 & the Nigerian Eduucator

When I first heard of the term WEB 2.0, I thought it will be yet another complex grid of theories and analogies all seeking to elucidate ‘to bits’ the ‘simple’ world wide web. This is probably because I had just seen this picture!

 

Inventor of the WORLD WIDE WEB and Patron of the Internet – Tim Berner-Lee was once quoted as referring to WEB 2.0 as ‘jargon‘. This was because he had earlier on given the defintion of his own WWW as “‘a collaborative medium, a place where we [could] all meet and read and write“. Unfortunately, the rigid HTML pages and unbending one-way stream of information did not exactly allow us all to ‘meet, read and write‘.

For me, WEB 2.0 is the new way of browsing, surfing and utilizing the Web. Reason not far-fetched from some of it’s overtly SIGNIFICANT QUALITY – allowing ‘back and forth’ flow, interaction and collaboration between open and end users of the web, undermining distance, time and space of each user.

Web 2.0 siginifies a transition from static HTML pages to more dynamic web-venues that are user friendly, and based on our user web service experience.

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In summary, WEB 2.0 is based on the three basic tenets of sharing and COMMUNICATION which are:

– Sending / Broadcasting

– Processing and

– Receiving

of INFORMATION via the INTERNET.