Presenting a Web 2.0 tool

MATERIALS DESIGN FOR VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

STEP 2 - TASK 1 - PRESENTING A WEB 2.0 TOOL

PARTICIPANTS: 

JEFFERSON DAVID MELO GUERRERO

CODE: 1’057.892.569

EDYNSON G LIZCANO V

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RUBÉN DARÍO LUGO ÁLVAREZ

CODE: 528215

MARIA VICTORIA GUALTEROS

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RODRIGO ARMANDO BERMEO

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COURSE CODE: 551021_11

TUTOR: CRISTIAN QUINTERO

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OPEN AND DISTANCE (UNAD)

PROGRAM OF DEGREE IN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

CEAD – TUNJA

2018

Jefferson David Melo Guerrero

BLOGGER (BLOG)

 

Presentation

1.      A blog is an online journal or informational website displaying information in the reverse chronological order, with latest posts appearing first. It is a platform where a writer or even a group of writers share their views on an individual subject. A blog articles tend to be accompanied by photos, videos, sounds and even animations and graphics that illustrate the subject much better.

In short, a blog is a space on the Internet which you can use to express your ideas, interests, experiences and opinions.

Most blogs include some standard features and structure. Here are common features that typical blog will include:

• Header with the menu or navigation bar
• Main content area with highlighted or latest blog posts
• Sidebar with social profiles, favorite content, or call-to-action
• Footer with relevant links like a disclaimer, privacy policy, contact page, etc.

Way of use

2.      The use of new technologies in information has been very important for the human being, since it has allowed it to develop in many aspects and one of these is educational, we have gone from a traditional education to a more active where the interaction that students have with the different tools of the web is essential and where this interaction allows students to advance their knowledge and develop special skills.

The use of blog contributes to the personal training of its users because students create their own knowledge, education is no longer focused only on the acquisition of knowledge, but on the continuous personal training and communication has become an aspect fundamental of new teaching on the Internet.

On the other hand for the educator can serve as a window of information and opinion about the subject or elements of their field of work and for students as a forum of opinion and window to show their progress in a particular activity or subject.

Importance

3.      Blogs are a means of disseminating content of great importance on the Internet, which provide not only information but have also been consolidated as a place to debate between visitors and subscribers, the blogs have great potential, both in the educational field as in our daily life. It can be easily adapted to any teaching methodology, allowing the person who uses it to learn and develop their intellectual capacity.

Blogs are one more resource available to teachers to transmit knowledge and at the same time learn from students and feedback, is a very dynamic resource, which possibly please students for the ease of communication, availability and comfort offered. Knowing how to use this tool can become a useful ally, facilitator of the teaching and learning of students.

Edyson G Lizcano V

Web 2.0 FACEBOOK

Presentation 

Facebook is a social network that was born at Harvard University as a way of communication between students. They by this means shared information in a fluid way. This project was novel and began to spread in several countries reaching millions of users today. Nowadays it is used in a different way to its origins.

Way of use

This tool can be used to teach. It is a mechanism to publish information and allows you to create links and share them. From Facebook we can communicate immediately with anyone. In English teaching, it helps us to access different online courses, it helps us to contact people who speak this language. Through messaging and access to videos we can practice the skills that are required for the language. The devices that are used for this tool are above all, smart phones and computers. It is worth noting that instragram and washapp were purchased by Facebook.

The importance of using this tool

Using Facebook is necessary because it communicates with the whole world and with all kinds of people. Facebook allows us to be informed and keep alert about the topics that interest us. It is also useful to access educational information and to contact people who can help us in education. For me personally, Facebook serves me for dispersion, to share with friends, to be informed, to know the information and to access topics of my interest. In the learning of the English language it has been a fundamental tool.

Ruben Dario Lugo A

YOUTUBE

Presentation

YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, and comment and upload their own videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets and via mobile phones. The main functions of YouTube are: users can search for and watch videos, create a personal YouTube channel, upload videos to your channel, like/Comment/share other YouTube videos, users can subscribe/follow other YouTube channels and users, create playlists to organize videos and group videos together.

Way of use

Conventional teaching tools have changed dramatically over the past several decades. Schools have gone from blackboards and chalk to whiteboards with dry erase markers — and in some places, from thick textbooks for every single subject to laptops that place a vast world of current, up-to-date information at students’ fingertips.

One of the latest developments in the education world is the growing use of YouTube, the popular video sharing Web site where any user can upload and share videos of every possible kind.

Importance 

It is really easy to integrate.

Adding YouTube videos to your eLearning course is an easy task, due to the variety of authoring tools and learning management systems out there. You can use YouTube videos to introduce a topic, explain an online activity, motivate your learners, or simply extend the information conveyed by your eLearning course.

It can be used to create an eLearning community.

As you have probably seen for yourself, everyone has a voice in YouTube. Using it as a social learning platform offers you the opportunity to build a strong eLearning community where everyone can comment, contribute, and share their opinions and ideas.

It generates and promotes online discussion.

E-Learning videos are particularly effective facilitators for analysis. After viewing a YouTube video, you can encourage online discussion by asking your learners to add their personal insights: What did they like about the video? Was there anything they didn’t understand? How did the eLearning video relate to their personal experiences and feelings? You can also ask them to share other YouTube video references to extend online discussions, as video enhanced eLearning courses increase interest and engagement levels by presenting different perspectives.

Maria Victoria Gualteros

WIX

There are seemingly thousands of different ways to build a website now. Wix is oe of the best-known brands in the website builder product type. They’ve been around for quite a while (circa 2006), and have built a large word-of-mouth brand.

In March 2012, Wix launched a new HTML5 site builder, replacing Adobe Flash technology. The existing sites built in Flash continued to be supported, but all new clients were directed to the new HTML5 platform.

Wix was founded in 2006 by Israelis Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami and Giora Kaplan. The company, headquartered in Tel Aviv, with offices in Be'er-Sheva, San Francisco, New York City, Dnipro, Kiev, and Vilnius, is backed by investors Insight Venture Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Benchmark Capital.

Advantages:

This is an online application that helps people to create good resources related to web pages. It has many advantages, and one of them is that it is free and everybody can create their own site, and it looks like a professional one.

No technical knowledge is required

The sites are 100% compatible with search engines

It offers a wide range of templates, but you can also create your site from scratch.

The web pages of Wix are completely free.

It also offers a series of premium plans that give our users access to extra features such as connecting a domain name, eliminating Wix advertising and getting more storage and bandwidth.

Why to use it?

The principal reason and the most imporatnt is because it allows people to create nice and well-looknig web pages, and that all of this is just for free. Or if the person wants something more personalized he/ she can pay to get more benefits. But its appearance is just awesome; it has so many tools so that you can modify it as you like it.  Wix’s backend and overall design are functional at the core. But they’ve also cleaned up many of the edges to make it “prettier” while retaining a wealth of functions on a single screen.

As we’ll see in the cons section, professional marketers will still have significant reservations about Wix. However – in some ways that misses the main pro about Wix – they are investing in being simple and easy for the DIY website owner who needs something that just works.

Rodrigo Bermeo

WORDPRESS

Mi proyecto es una APP, para mejorar el aprendizaje de English a chicos en edades entre 11 y 15 años para ser más exacto, en dos de las cuatro habilidades listening, speaking y es totalmente virtual, el impacto ambiental que se podría producir seria porque está estructurado, para que los cursos sean realizados por medio de aparatos electrónicos como Pc, Tablet y Smartphone, en donde muy posiblemente a medida que  haya nuevos desarrollos en la APP, se necesitara de hardware con mejores especificaciones, haciendo necesario la adquisición de nuevos equipos, donde muy seguramente las personas no eliminaran estos terminales de la mejor forma, en busca de cuidar el planeta, como pueden ser pantallas, cables USB, cargadores, ya que estos elementos pueden liberar una serie de químicos que afectan los recursos naturales y la salud.

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