There are some many new technologies. As computers were gaining popularity and becoming must-haves in business, homes and schools, I was hesitant to buy one because the technology involved was changing so rapidly. I've had computers that I needed to swap program disks in order to use a multi-disk program, others that had two drives, but still had to swap disks, then came the hard drive of a small size that would store the programs and then the 5-1/2 inch floppy disks became 3.5 hard-shell diskettes... Flash forward to today where I sit down at my 5.3 lb laptop wirelessly connected to a home network and a printer that runs on a battery. The hard drive is 60 gigs and I only have a drive for a CD/DVD disk.
All the hardware changes over the past 20 years had been tremendous. Now it seems we are turning more toward the software side of things, especially on the Internet. We now have Web 2.0 tools that allow us to collaborate online. Although most of them don't have all the bells and whistles that the full-blown that Microsoft Office has, it is functional enough for collaboration on word processing or spreadsheets.
Web 2.0 offers so many opportunities for online learning. Keeping up will be the issue, as it always is in education and technology.
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Kathy: Your comment about the challenge of keeping up with the latest technology is so true. Many of the 2.0 tools seem to be consumer driven and Millenials like portable technology - even more important for educators to keep pace with the latest technology trends.
One of my favorite e-learning quotes is by Judith Tabron. "It will be a dismal future if the only thing our graduates cannot do online is learn."
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