Interact, share and learn!

The term web 2.0 is used to refer to the second version of the World Wide Web. It focuses on a more dynamic use of the internet, in which people can interact, generate content and share information. Although it is not widely applied at schools, the benefits of its implementation can mean a great improvement in the educational context. Web 2.0 not only allows students and teachers to communicate outside the school environment, but it also provides a motivating way to work and interact.

 4shared and Quizlet are two web 2.0 resources which can be used for learning purposes. The former is an online storage site in which you can share videos, books, recordings, images and information with other people. In an academic context, you can take advantage of this by showing your students online materials you find useful. Moreover, it is really easy to sign up, and start using it in a very practical way.

The latter is mainly used for practicing and learning vocabulary items, since you can create activities with different terms and their definitions, and add images and/or recordings to those descriptions. It gives you different kinds of activities to exercise what you have learned: matching, true or false, multiple choice activities and games.

After analysing these 2.0 websites, we can see how the development of technology benefits the learning process through the achievement of a continuous interaction. Students and teacher should profit from these kinds of resources in order to teach and learn in a more engaging way.

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