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Some students in today's classrooms are enjoying using the interactive blackboards.These touch sensitive boards give students the opportunity to manipulate images on the screen and to mentally and physically interact with information. Students enjoy interacting with other students and collaborating in teams.The interactive blackboard brings the lesson to life and is a wonderful addition to the classroom.Web 2.0 also offers a variety of tools for student interaction. For my second grade students, I think digital story telling would be a fun learning activity. One educational benefit would be allowing learning to be more relevant to everyday living. Student engagement would certainly increase, especially with the addition of vibrant images,music,and narration. If visible text is included this could help build vocabulary. Additionally different learning modalities could be serviced, which could aid in the differentiation of instruction. Other skills such as constructing a story, sequencing and summarizing, editing and proofreading are also enhanced with this learning tool.It is possible to use these collaborative tools in the classroom, Of course the content should always be related to what is being taught in school, and the time frame may be adjusted to what is appropriate for that particular age group of students.The constraints on student learning,whereby knowledge is gained from simply reading about something would be removed as well as solitary learning, not in collaboration with other students, would also be removed. As always the educational institution itself would need to be ready to support this kind of technology, by giving teachers many opportunities to experience the tool before trying to use it with students and having personnel able and knowledgeable enough to solve problems with software.