I chose to use careerbuilder.com as my web 2.0 tool.  Careerbuilder.com is a web site that I have used in the past and found very helpful when searching for a career.  The premiss of this web site/ web tool is to assist people in their career search.  Careeer Builder allows users to not only find positions that are available, but it also provides additional tools for people to determine pay and learn more about speicific job titles and employers.

Another great feature of this website is that the user has the ability to gain employment.  If you are contemplating a move in either career or location, you can use this website to assit you.  Even if you are not looking for a job, this website can provide you with information on possible employment opporutnities in a specific geography, as well as rates of pay.

As for the future of schools, the advent and progression of Web 2.0 will have an impact on how information is disemminated.  With the further enhancement of technology, learning will be doen less through text books and lecture and more through interactive activities that are electronically based.  To allow for faster, realtime information, the use of web based applications will become more curcial.  Classrooms of the future will need to meet the learning needs of students that are inundated with information from outside sources.  A large role that schools will have to play with regards to Web 2.0 is teaching students how to determine sound factual based sources of information from those that are simply made up.  In addition, schools will need to watch out for web preditors that will have increased access to children because of an increased web presence of the students.

I did not have a terribly pleasant experience creating my blog.  I do not have text messaging, as I feel it is perhaps the worst thing that has ever happened to written language.  I refuse to get it and refuse to pay for a service that I feel is degrading society’s ability to communicate in an effective and professional manner.  Because of this, I had a hard time getting ablog started.  Blogger will only forward user names and passwords to cell phones via text messaging.  Instead, I have to use WordPress, which we do not learn about in our class, so I am going at this blind.  In addition, I am not a “blogging” type of person to start with.  i don’t even like sites like Facebook.  Everyone that I feel I need to share informatio nwith I do.  I personally do not feel the need to share my information with others on-line.

My Avatar looks something like me.  It is hard to tell, as this blog site forces me to crop my avatar down to the size of a postage stamp, so you can’t really see my picture.

I want to learn more about Web 2.0 so I can try to integrate more acitvities in my class.  Since the county that I teach in has very strict rules on web access and does not allow blogging or web communication, I am not certain that I will be able to allow my students much access to Web 2.0 type programs.  i know they will not be able to communicate back out to the web.

I found it somewhat difficult to set up a blog, as I do not have text messging enabled on my phone and many of the blog spots want to send messages to my cell phone.  I refuse to get text messaging, as I think it is the bane of society.  Text messaging in my view has done more to ruin the written English language in 10 years than mankind has been able to do over the past several hundered years.