Wang and Zahadat describe a two-course sequence designed to help students learn and practice Web 2.0 concepts. The authors want to produce marketable students, despite the changing technology. They selected components for their students’ use that may not be optimal now and surely will not be later--for example, ASP.NET.

Information technology (IT) teachers have always faced the issue of changing technologies, and teaching by using projects in a computer laboratory is widespread. In fact, the authors’ allocation of 40 percent for projects is not especially notable; in fact, others use more.

It is difficult to know how these courses fit within the school’s general IT curriculum. Did other courses more strongly address concepts and the increasingly important mixture of technology with other disciplines? The paper also fails to present whether these courses were successful. Did the courses meet the authors’ goals? What did the students think?

If making students marketable was a prime objective, the authors should have included thoughts from potential employers. Major corporations want to hire employees who are capable of learning rapidly as their environment changes, rather than those who can only do one thing. Furthermore, they want employees who can work their way through the ranks--for example, employees who can make decisions about functional partitioning.