Web 2.0 Educator

I picked Wesley Fryer to read and write about. He is an expert in digital learning. The first blog I read about explained about virtually guest speaking in the college classroom. There is a bureau of virtual speakers called MERLOT which stands for Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. He explained that this is where people can go to register to be virtual speakers and can tag their speach here for teachers to use in the classroom. Wesley supports MERLOT and is excited to learn more about it in the future. Wesley Fryer talked about emails are not private. He explained that emails can be forwarded to many people and posted. Emails can also be used against school systems by law and can cause many problems. It is important that if there is a touch issue meet face to face and discuss it. I support and agree with this and I believe that many people forget they are on the internet and almost anyone has access to what is out there. It is essential to keep things positive and only say what you mean especially in emails or online. A no screens afternoon is taking away technology and just enjoying the things around you. Wesley did this one sunday afternoon and he realized that it was a very positive experience. I believe that it is very important to take time away from computer, tv, games, and work to just enjoy the people around you and do activities together. I believe that overall he was very informed about technology and I enjoyed reading about what he had to say.