– a great post I came across by Özge Karaoğlu, thought I’d share it with you –

“I believe as teachers, we are about to have the biggest discussion on education: How do we learn? Some of us have already explored the potential of social networking, media-sharing and other Web 2.0 tools though they are not designed specially for learning; and it’s getting more popular everyday among our students. They have been using Web 2.0 for a long time. They write on blogs, upload photos and videos, build personal profiles and interact with each other everyday. They all have their Myspace and Facebook accounts and this makes it easier for us to use this technology at schools because our students are already familiar through their own experiences and they are already motivated to use them.

Here are some reasons why to use Web 2.0 in our classes…

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