Flat Classroom Student Summit

    My name is Sandeep and my flattener was Web 2.0. For the final project, I was asked to make a video on what I think will be the future of Web 2.0. What inventions and innovations will exist in let's say, 20 years? Perhaps 50 years? Well, lets first talk about what exactly is Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is the second generation of the world wide web (WWW) which allows users to communicate and collaborate online. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter and YouTube are all examples of web 2.0. In creating this video for the final project, I myself had to utilize some Web 2.0 tools. I used sites such as YouTube to get music and Google to do research.

   In the beginning of the year, we were asked to join a bunch of sites and to remember their usernames and passwords. We had to sign up for Evernote which is an online note-taking site, Edmodo: Facebook for educators and students, and blogger: to blog our information. In doing so, our teacher had asked to create a spreadsheet on Google doc so we would remember all of our usernames and passwords. This is an example of web 2.0. This tool has made our lives so much easier.

   However, problems did occur along the way. Many times, the internet wouldn't work. Sometimes, we didn't save our work and programs would freeze and close on their own. When aksed to put a outsource video request on the project site, we did not get an immediate response back. Also, many kids faced problems in downloading their outsource video from the ning. Luckliy, my contributor (S/O to Michaela Chesin) had posted her outsource video on Youtube and all I had to do was convert that video using a Web 2.0 tool to something that was compatible for Windows Movie Maker. 

   Overall, I really enjoyed this project because it was something that I have never done in the past. By flattening the walls of our classrooms, we opened up many opportunities to communicating and collaborating with students from other schools, not only in the nation, but also overseas. Some of the changes i would love to see for the Flat Classroom Project next year would be to give specific directions to upload the final video. Many students in my class were confused as to where to post their video. Also, many students work on their own pace, some work faster than others, so posting deadlines made it harder for students who worked slower or those who were still figuring out how to use Web 2.0 sites. The project was a great success at the end and hopefully, future students will get a kick out of it as much as we did. 

P.S. Please watch my video to learn more about Web 3.0. 
( "The Future of Web 2.0 - Web 3.0"  http://youtu.be/UMGUUsQc1r4)