Journal 6

Soule, Helen (August 2008). Transforming School Communities: Creating Dialogue Using Web 2.0 Tools. Learning & Leading With Technology, 36(1), 12-15.


The article is about communication systems that need to be made for students, parents, schools and their communities. This is system that can be used according to Helen Soule is the Web 2.0 tool. All educators, staff and teachers must be proficient in the use of this tool and should be able to teach others how to use it as well. This tool should be used to communicate messages to their audience in a clear and concise way. The presentation should be easy enough for anybody to understand and should be audience specific towards the students, the community and or the teachers. Some of the tools that can be used on Web 2.0 can be blogs, webinars, podcasts and social networking. I believe by using this type of technology it would be more effective for parents to check their emails or blogs rather than to count on the student to deliver the message.

1. Why should more schools incorporate this new way of technology to communicate with the community and parents?
According to the article, we live in a very busy and hectic society these days and parents and the general public spend more time in front of a computer now then ever before so the chance of them running into an email or blog online is greater than if they waited to get a letter from their students.

2.How do parents and the community learn about these web 2.0 tools? Schools should encourage parents to attend meetings with the school to inform them of these tools. Even maybe giving a tutorial on these tools on campus of a school.