Reaching an Audience

Any space traveler’s nightmare is dropping the connection with earth. Alone at space left to think about if there is anybody out there. Pondering if anyone is thinking about the same thoughts somewhere else in the galaxy. “Are they getting a load of this?” a lone space traveler might ask. Even a traveler with hours of training in preparation for the likelihood that their connection should go out, who knows what to do dreads this senario. Let’s face it, communication is what holds us together.

Like space, the on-line classroom is where learning can be done through social web communication systems. Like astronauts students have had years of training using social web apps. The new technologies come second nature to a generation that grew up on the internet. “This reminds us that a recreational confidence with Web 2.0 experiences has the potential of opening student eyes to how it might be extended into the space of schooled learning.” (Crook 2012) Because of the advantage of innovation in the technology field the potential for communication and the spread of quality education may be closer than we think. Communication in the web 2.0 landscape gives individuals the power to inquire more resources and in depth information, collaborate with individuals across the globe, maintain publication rights, and opening the literacy abilities to several modes. The social web audience is out there and they are hungry for a good story.