Day 2: What is web 2.0?

Hello all! I hope you enjoyed watching the Clay Shirky video at home. I had intended for us to watch it in class the first day, but I thought we had run out of time, so I didn’t play it. After you all left I realized that I had let you out extremely early! That’s what a crying baby and 45 minutes of sleep will do to you :O Don’t get used to it—I talk a lot and usually class runs a few minutes late.

So, the agenda for today is as follows:

1. Make name plates and introduce ourselves
2. Log into the Writing Studio and read and respond to a classmate’s post.
3. Discuss the implications of our uses of digital technologies. I would like to focus on how and why we use particular digital technologies and then discuss Carr’s argument the Google is making us stupid.