Investigating teachers’ Web 2.0 tools awareness, frequency and purposes of usage in terms of different variables

Abstract

Web2.0 technologies have been becoming widespread and used increasingly in nowadays. These tools could be used effectively in education. The aim of this study is to examine the awareness of the teachers about Web2.0 tools, frequency of their usage and the purposes of usage in terms of different variables.  By this purpose, data was collected by a survey, which was developed by researcher, from 183 teachers who attended in-service training of Ministry of Education. As a result of data analysis, it is founded that teachers were aware of Facebook, MSN and VSS while they weren’t aware of Weblogs and Podcast. Teachers are predominantly using Facebook once a week, using MSN everyday, using VSS a few days in a week and they are not using Wikipedia, Weblogs and Podcast. The teachers are predominantly using Facebook, MSN and VSS for fun and communication, using Wiki, Podcast and Weblogs for accessing information.