Review - 2

Educational web portal 2.0

 

 go to the link

www.technewsworld.com/story/61820.html

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23973555

the term Web 2.0 refers to new ways of using the web to deliver a more personalized and collaborative online learning experience through information sharing and interoperability.

Examples of Web 2.0 are social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), video and photo sharing sites (YouTube, Flickr, Instagram, Vimeo, Vine), wikis, blogs, podcasts, RSS feeds, and Delicious.

Web 2.0, is the facilitation of learning through collaboration and sharing ideas and content with other learners. Increasingly, people are using these technologies to share information, get help, find people with similar interests, and learn from one another. 

"Due to the growing complexity of the Web, portals have become essential to the Internet users in this new Web 2.0 world. By providing a pathway to other content, portals facilitate the access to information and make the users experience more enjoyable and rewarding. This is why portals are now experiencing serious growth and in my opinion will keep on growing in the future as their usage will become more and more indispensable."

As Web applications become more sophisticated, people can easily develop elaborate personal Web pages, create a blog, and upload their own opinions, audio and video. Users can augment the news by reporting hot stories, sometimes faster than and with details often overlooked or ignored by the professional news media.

"Education is the strongest among all. Teachers and students use Pageflakes - is an Ajax-based start page and social networking site similar to Netvibes, MyYahoo, iGoogle and Microsoft Live -to aggregate articles and news feeds, collect research materials on their portal pages. Social groups gather on Pageflakes and collaboratively work on their portals. Family pages show family members are bringing together family photos, calendars, to-do-lists and many interesting topics. RSS junkies use Pageflakes to aggregate hundreds of RSS feeds into organized tabs."

Break Down

The Good: the ability to “share” information with other users on the web, learners can connect them to access the knowledge they need, when they need it.

 

The bad: learners can waste their time by playing on line games …….etc

                  No force to make him/her study.

The bottom line: they are   social networking , video and photo sharing sites which facilitate learning through collaboration and sharing ideas and content with other learners.

Rating: 4/5 (v.Good)