Talk:Foundations of Education and Instructional Assessment/Technology/Web 2.0

A major revision in terms of the content in this chapter would be the omission of the quiz section. Yes, each question does put a Web 2.0 based scenario in real-time, but each example doesn’t really help the reader verify understanding. With the content being integrated within a Wiki page, it allows the reader to easily jump around and reread any misunderstood information. The author is working in the assumption that this phenomenon is an empirically improved form of education. This is just opinion. By the very nature of holding these assumptions, bias sneaks in by little fragments and detracts from the article as a whole.

While Christian addresses questions on the topic of Web 2.0 throughout the chapter and her list of websites is adequate, we felt that the depth of her answers was lacking. For example, she mentions Webquests, blogs and video sharing as potential tools to be used in the classroom, but there are many more Web 2.0 tools out there, such as Animoto, Prezi, Diigo and YouTube, to name a few. In fact, here’s a website that claims to list the top 1,000 Web 2.0 tools: http://www.web20searchengine.com/web20/web-2.0-list.htm. We added this link to the chapter to provide more options for the reader.

We also decided that the term "Web 2.0" should be introduced before a professional source is cited to give the paragraph better flow.