Lesson 13 Reading Response

The Future… Web 3.0


“People joke about an Internet-enabled toaster, or an Internet-enabled chair,” Lai says. “But it's evolving to the point where the sorts of things we used to joke about are actually more practical.”

Wow! I have just started to grasp Web 2.0 and people are talking about Web 3.0 I think that when it arrives it will have an impact on education, but it will be a slow impact. After all, many of my colleagues are oblivious to Web 2.0 applications in their classrooms now. Surprise, is their reaction when I inform them that I am taking a course and learning new ways to teach. They think it is great, but admit that they are not ready to try it yet. If they are not ready for Web 2.0, they definitely are not ready for Web 3.0

What will the future bring for the library catalog? The point is that the library catalog has a long way to go...must integrate Web 2.0 tools. These are great questions, however, when it comes to my school and the library, we need to update the entire library, not just the catalog. My school doesn’t even have its own webpage. Oh, they are working on one, but they have been creating it for over a year now.

If I can create a library blog or wiki, and then have our collection available on line to students, I would be happy. Once I tackle the “little” things, then I will think about the catalog