Web 2.0

  In  the article Software social para la escuela 2.0: más allá de los Blogs y las Wikis, the term Web 2.0 is defined as " a group of technologies technology that enables social connection and in which everyone  is capable of adding and editing information" (Anderson 2007:6)

This article interested me because it talks about the explicit conection between  these technologies and education, since they present new ways of dealing with information, that is to say, the way we have access, the way we share it and the ammount of information we have available with just one click. With this access to the information, the teacher cease  to be the source of knowledge become a facilitator of it. These new tools that the Internet offers, allow us to communicate  in different ways  modifying the teaching- learning process.

After reading the definition and characteristics and watching the videos Eric Whitacres´Virtual Choir - `Lux Aurumbuque´ and Web 2.0 ,we can see how many things this web 2.0 allow us, such as being connected and in constant communication all the time, share anything we want (files, photographs, videos, etc). 

Taking into account all these possibilities that web 2.0 give us, and considering the fact that we are preparing  to teach to the new generation of students who are in constant contact with technology, web 2.0 provide us with many options to integrate technology in our lessons. 

Nowadays, in my experience as a student of the teaching training programme, teachers make use of many of these tools  in their subjects,for example, by the use of the moodle platform,Edmodo, Facebook, etc they share relevant information to continue working with the topics we dealt in class  or with new topics. In these sites we can watch videos, post comments as regards the topics, read our classmates opinion on the topic,ask doubts,have immediate access to the information. In short, we get a lot of advantages of this new way of working that did not exist before.