Response to Chp. 1/2

Response post for preface/chapters 1 and 2

One of the ideas that stood out to me after reading chapter 1 is the idea that “users moved from consuming what was on the Internet to producing the content on the Internet.”  (p. 5)  As I look back on my use of the Internet and the use of my students, I totally agree with that idea.  This idea helps me to understand the use of the term “Web 2.0”. My students have been getting information from the Internet for at least the past fifteen years.  Most of that use has been as consumers.  It has only been in the past few years that I have also been producing the content found on the internet.  My students have been using technology to show what they have learned for many years, but not very much of it has been published on the Internet.  I would like to give my students more opportunities to be producers of the Internet.