Having a tablet PC helps her mark, all drafts and homework assignments are emailed directly to her Exchange email she uses Word’s “inking” to mark the work and emails it back.

Honest to god!

My point is that while using web 2.0 technology in the classroom is very exciting, its already happening. This is the logical outcome of web 2.0 bridging the chasm.

@James : The only problem I can see with hosted web 2.0 tools is (at least in Australia) schools have strong IP concerns (all work done by all students is the students own intellectual property) and the school must take all steps to ensure its protection. Many Australian schools are also burdened by a lack in Internet connection speed. In my wife’s case the school has significant on-site hardware and bandwidth to spare, but is very sensitive to privacy.

Perhaps developing a server environment which allowed schools to host the tools themselves “behind the firewall” like a enterprise customer would be a better business modal AND circumvent these issues. But then again, I can only speak from Australia’s point of view, and perhaps this is not the case with the US.

mmm….all very exciting, and I can tell you from personal experience that as a media 2.0 junkie – its so great to see my lovely wife cutting up that days lesson and converting them to MP3 for the students

I own the domain name EDUCATION.TV, I can’t think of a better name for an education related company that will make use of WEB 2.0 tools!!!

With Demand Media starting their promotion of the .TV extension on Tuesday 1st May – it is indeed exciting times for everyone who has an interest in Web 2.0!!

They believed me.

And still they did nothing.

Jeremiah and Mark, how often do you think it is a belief problem vs. a implementation problem? And Mark, how are you approaching this twin challenges?

Brian