Friday, January 16, 2009

Thing 17 - more web 2.0

Well, I took a look at the Web 2.0 tool called "YELP". It total reminded me of google local. This is a resource for you to find information and reviews about various things. You can type in a city and find out about best places to dine or where to shop. They also have ratings from people that have been there before. It is pretty cool. You can also locate schools and sporting events. The only thing I didn't like about this tool site was that not all the information that they had was rated. This makes it hard to know if a restaurant is good or not. If your like me, then you hate to have a bad dining experience. This site was easy to use though. I could see this being used in the classroom as a way to show students how to locate and find various things that they may need to locate when they go visit a different city or state. You don't always have access to the yellow pages, but more likely you can get access to the Internet quicker with WIFI or Internet on your cell phone and locate what you need. Again we don't know what jobs are going to be in the future, but if we can teach students how to problem solve and give them a few tools of how to find information then their possibilities are endless. So many things out there on the Web to explore and not enough time in the day.

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