Assignment #4: Reflections on Learning: Post 2

Prompt 2:
Reflect upon our group reserach and discussions in Session 4 (use of Web 2.0 Tools) and Session 5 (Virtual Schools). Did you find it helpful to first learn about the variety of tools out there that can be used for e-learning, before learning about virtual schools, or do you think it would have been more beneficial to have first discussed Virtual Schools, and then moved into Web 2.0 tools that can be used to deliver content, student work, etc.? Explain your thinking.

ANSWER:
I think it’s very beneficial to first learn about the variety of tools out there that can be used for e-learning, before learning about virtual schools because
Web 2.0 Tools are used in different environments: teaching, professional, etc.

In this class we are concentrating on Web 2.0 Teaching Tools that are used by educators from traditional and virtual schools.
At work I am using secure Web 2.0 solutions that are adopted within US Federal, state and municipal government agencies (example:Defense Connect Online (DCO).