introduction

Hello~ Welcome to my blog. I'm Rachel.
My name is Wei-Shan Kong, other friends call me kong kong except my family. I love my family very much. Family is always a strong support to me. Since I was in elementary school, my parents had send me to an English cram school . Thanks to them, I can get better learning when I was in junior high school. It made me feel more cofidence than I used to be.I have been studied six years in both junior and senior girl's high school. Because of that, I found that I will afraid of chatting with boys. But now when I get into Providence University, I become easygoing day by day^^I am so happy in my college life! I have many friends and get along with them. Expecially my roommates, they are all very friendly and I love them very much.I want to be a diplomat in my future. I know this wish is very hard to acheive, so I will be strict to myself. I know that there are many outstanding students in our university, including some of them were live in foreign country since childhood. My parents always worried my health so that they always object to let me go abroad. I wish one day I can go abroad to many countries to see all the beauties and wonders in this world.
Why I choose this class?
The reason I choose this class is because I like the teacher of this class (It's you) . I really mean it. And I want to learn more about using computer to promote my english ability.
What do I want to learn from this class?
I want to learn more about how to use computer asisted language learning(CALL) to teach.
Web2.0
The term "Web 2.0" refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design that aim to facilitate communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications; such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.

Web 2.0 encapsulates the idea of the proliferation of interconnectivity and interactivity of web-delivered content. Tim O'Reilly regards Web 2.0 as the way that business embraces the strengths of the web and uses it as a platform. O'Reilly considers that Eric Schmidt's abridged slogan, don't fight the Internet, encompasses the essence of Web 2.0 — building applications and services around the unique features of the Internet, as opposed to expecting the Internet to suit as a platform (effectively "fighting the Internet").
In the opening talk of the first Web 2.0 conference, O'Reilly and John Battelle summarized what they saw as the themes of Web 2.0. They argued that the web had become a platform, with software above the level of a single device, leveraging the power of "The Long Tail," and with data as a driving force. According to O'Reilly and Battelle, an architecture of participation where users can contribute website content creates network effects. Web 2.0 technologies tend to foster innovation in the assembly of systems and sites composed by pulling together features from distributed, independent developers. (This could be seen as a kind of "open source" or possible "Agile" development process, consistent with an end to the traditional software adoption cycle, typified by the so-called "perpetual beta".)
Web 2.0 technology encourages lightweight business models enabled by syndication of content and of service and by ease of picking-up by early adopters.