Thoughts and other such things: the first class

It was nice to see some familiar faces as we all head back to the classroom. This semester should be an interesting journey as the web 2.0 world has been an area of interest of mine over the last year or so. The web 2.0 galaxy is exciting and has yet to be fully realized. The challanges will be, like with the first internet boom, to weed out the positive aspects of this new found reality. As we move out of the classrooms and back into the job world it will be interesting to see how the instructional tech community adopts the tools and spirit of web 2.0 into the education market. This is an exciting time in tech indeed, though, we face a future in which less and less experts will be needed to genrate dynamic content. Knowledge is power and this new found communtiy growing in the midst of the web 2.0 movement can have a profound effect in allowing further access to information. It will open doors to many were put off or intimidated by the computer. It seems that I could ramble a little more about this, but I will save that for later blog posts….