So now that you know what Web 2.0 means, and what Web 2.0 Tools are, why should you use them in your classroom?
The single best reason to use a Web 2.0 tool in your classroom is because it allows an easy way to store information, and share it with others. This allows students to not only share their work with other students, but you are teachers to share work from your students to other teachers. These other teachers can then use these student works for many reasons for their own students, from simple examples, to having students analyze or evaluate them, to having their students responding to the student's works, or even just to learn about how different other students might see things based on where they are in the world.
Of course, that is not the only reason! Another fantastic aspect to Web 2.0 tools is that they allow for the use of instant feedback in many cases. One easy example of that is an automatically graded knowledge check. These would be a (or more than one) small quiz a student would do during a lesson to let them know how well they are absorbing the material, they would answer questions and immediately see what they got wrong or right.
Finally Web 2.0 tools are great for student engagement, for when student work is see by other students, and not just the teacher, an instinctive need to excel arises, and the students take responisbility for their own work.
