Breathing Fire Into Web 2.0 - article

The article “Breathing Fire Into Web 2.0” by Justin Hardman and David Carpenter talks about the importance of preparing students with the tools necessary in technology and it focuses on today’s internet that can be very useful to staff, students, and parents.
Hardman and Carpenter introduced Web 2.0. It works as an online communication and collaboration system for schools educators and parents. Also it is an excellent piece of technology to support learning in the classrooms.
The Hong Kong International School (HKIS) has taken this leap to create its own all-in-one Web-based system called my Dragon Net (http://dragonet.hkis.edu.hk).
The article emphasis and focuses in the development and the use of this Web-based system since it has had a great and positive impact in education.
It all started as an online file storage and calendar system for one international school has grown into a multifaceted virtual community experience that works to achieve aspects of Web 2.0 to meet the needs of the users’ educational, collaboration, and communication needs.
The great advantage of myDragonNet is that it is provided to after-school activities, sports teams, clubs, and even activities outside school. These collaborative spaces enable our clubs, sports teams, faculty committees, and other community groups to work together more efficiently and effectively. In this way the student’s overall educational experience at school comes from activities both inside and outside the classroom.

1. How did myDragonNet was design? The coolest thing in this design is that the development was grounded in the idea of inclusion. Hardman began working with students, teachers, and administrators researching their needs and ideas for how myDragonNet should work for them and the result was phenomenal.


2. Since this tool looks very promising to better lives in everyday tasks for teachers and students, could be any way or risk that student could take this great advantage as the only latest social networked presence?
Hardman and Carpenter make stress on the wrong idea of that the system is future proof and they also mention to their hope for students trying this web that their identities and accomplishments are much more authentically represented than they would be in Facebook or MySpace.