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__Inclusion and access__ Teaching is becoming diversiform in classroom and some time it just depends on the situation with students. Students may have different abilities to show in classroom or some students are may not interesting instructor’s curriculum, but some students can bring a idea to impact other students. These situations are common to see in classroom with teacher, but they are not a special situation and problem for teacher now. The special situation and uncommon is students who cannot physically be in instructor’s class. How can we face this problem? If I am an instructor, I will use a high technology tool which call webcam using on the internet or use Web 2.0 technology tools with my student. Web 2.0 technologies are the new learning environment for both teacher and students in learning. Now this technologies engage many teachers or researchers to develop web based learning environments and tutoring strategies (Hwang, 2003; Hwang, Tseng, & Hwang, 2008; Tsai, 2001; Tu, Shih, & Tsai, 2008). For example, Google groups, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Answers, Baidu and Answers. Com, are present a multitude of interesting opportunity for knowledge discovery. Also, Web 2.0 based learning systems provide discussion facilities that can be employed to support group learning activities, including learning environments encounter a critical problem in practical applications. It also can promote exchanging and sharing information (Chu //et al.//, 2009). Web 2.0 based learning systems can be teachers learning environment with students’ cooperative and collaborative learning activities on the internet. The benefits of Web 2.0 based learning can exchange and share environment is the role of instructor or assistant (Seale & Cann, 2000). This can help the students to solve problems as well as encouraging them to work cooperatively not only classroom, but also can do it outside classroom. The study of Chen and Chiu (2008) indicated that encouragements from teachers at the message level could promote students’ critical thinking and facilitate information sharing among them. Web 2.0 technology and webcam tools can create a learning environment to face to face, discussing, and talking at the same time or it also can let students up load and download important information. Using these tools can fix the problem which students cannot attend in classroom or outside classroom. Also, using webcam is still not enough for students who are not allowing attending in classroom. For example, wikispaces, blogs, PBWork, and Protopage are Web 2.0 tools using both classroom and outside classroom. These tools are an interactive online space for posting, discussing, uploading and downloading information. These tools are also providing a nice integration of discussion and internal/external emailing functions which can be used to create learning communities for my students to communication and collaboration between members of the space. Both inside classroom and outside classroom students can connect to each other when they go back at home. __The Wicked Problem__ I will design an appropriate instructional content into an appropriate technology tool. For example, [|Blogger], Wikispaces, [|Protopage], and [|PBWork] are four great tools I use in my classes now and each tool has different feature, but they have similar useful function for instruction. These tools can increase students’ interesting and engage students to go discussion with other members. I can prove four standards and provide evidence for how students are being met in the tools. For blogger, Wikispaces, PBWork, students can leave their opinions to discuss their topic or issue. . For Protopage, students can share their opinions, but they cannot type words to contact quickly at same time. This is the only one biggest problem that Protopage cannot do. __Webstarts__ Like I said Wikispaces, blogs, PBWork, and Protopage are good tools to use in education, but teacher should also know about how to use inappropriate. It depends on instructor’s curriculum. When teacher want to create a learning environment, they should decide an appropriate tool for their students. For example, if I am teach K-9 students, I may choose blogs, Protopage, and PBWork to be my tool for my student because they can be more creative for students and easy to learning how to do for students’ learning. It may promote or improve students’ learning and help students create a critical thinking. If I am teach 10-12 grades or college students, I will choose wikispaces to use in my classroom. Wikispaces is more management both students and teachers and it is not easy to learn for lower level students because they will have many questions on how to use Wikispaces. It is not like blogs funny, but it allow for the creation of multi-paged websites which can warehouse a variety of file types (e.g., text, video, audio, pics, links). The wikipages can easily be created and follow a simple template structure and membership can be created and others can subscribe to your wikispace. __Access and the digital Divide__ Raptivity is a useful high technology tool for education. Teachers can use this tool to record their curriculum or design a curriculum, but you need to spend money to buy this tool. We can tell our students to buy expensive tool themselves. If this tool is necessary for our students, school should buy this tool for students for free in to school system. Students can go on to internet and log in this tool for free and easy to use both inside classroom and outside classroom. __Technology: A Problem or a Solution?__ Blackboard has been using for many years in classroom and now some schools are still used in classroom. For example, a few elementary school, second school, and high school are still using blackboard in classroom because they don’t have much budget for technology equipment. Now most schools use high technology equipment in classroom because high technology tools can improve students’ learning. For example, Smart board is a great technology tool which can replace blackboard. What it call Smart board because Smart board is an interactive whiteboard that use touch detection for use input. For example, scrolling, right mouse click in the same way normal PC input devices, including a mouse or key board and detect input. These things are not blackboard can do it. There are some benefits of the Smart board such as wide selection of educational resources (it means that can offers high quality, interactive lesson activities, content, assessment material and teaching resources), Professional development for every educator (teachers can develop programs and help ensure the technology products), and the proven path to success (it means that teachers can comprehensive and integrated solutions offer everything teachers need to achieve long term success).

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