Sunday, September 13, 2009

Thing #6: Discovering Web 2.0 Tools

I chose yahoo answers because it is a fun site that allows you to ask, answer, explore, and social network with other people. I wouldn't use this site to answer life's most difficult questions, however this would be a great site for people to gather perspectives, generate ideas, or as a resource to hunt for accredited research information (people usually post links to .edu, .gov, and .org websites to back-up their assumptions). You can converse with other yahoo answers users via email, instant messaging, and by commenting on other people's questions. This site could definitely be incorporated into a school or library setting because it would allows for people to share knowledge and have discussion boards locally and globally. yahoo answers is simple and (my favorite word) free. I like to think of it as a productive version of facebook.

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