Tools of the virtual world for pedagogical purposes

Internet has become an important source for research, thanks the net we can quickly access a huge amount of information from different authors, users, another researchers, experts, etc. Opinions, hypothesis, experiences are more available now due to the net and that becomes an interesting library for pupils.

We students can take advantage of the powerful sharing features that internet provides. The so called cloud let us store our knowledge and make it accessible to as many people as we want, all over the world, which brings up an interesting characteristic such as ubiquity. Given that internet reaches every corner and it is the mean we need to access the cloud, we can actually access our contents from everywhere.. God is omnipresent, and my documents too, very amazing. As I share docs with my mates we all have the chance to edit them from our places and see the changes made by someone else in real time, thanks for example Google docs.

But not only ubiquity and sharing makes internet tools so useful. We need to communicate verbally with each other too, and we don't want to spend all our money in Telefonica, so we take advantage of Skype for instance.

Also, Web 2.0 allows us meet other people specialized in certain technical fields that are not physically reachable. The word "around" is not important anymore due to the virtual world, so for some one what it used to be "none around can help me understand multidimensional databases" turned into "there is this expert from MIT I met in Linkedin that have very nice notes about multidimensional databases". Knowledge is richer and easier to get for students nowadays thanks to these tools.