In the olden days (known as Web 1.0), the Internet was all about emails and web sites, developed by professionals, with pages of text that you scrolled down to read. Nowadays, the Internet is for anybody and everybody who can get in on the act. Have you ever watched videos on YouTube? Seen photos on Flickr? Maybe even uploaded some yourself? Are you on Facebook or Myspace? Then you're already in the Web 2.0 world; joining in is what it's all about! In this chapter, we shall look at some Web 2.0 applications that can be used in Moodle—both by us, the teachers, and by our students. Remember—they were born into this world, so let's harness what they're used to!
In this chapter, we're going to link geography with literacy and set our students a project imagining how they'd react if their home town were flooded. We shall:
Get the students to keep a blog of their experience as they work through the project
Set up a Google Map of the riverside area that we're focusing...