Educational applications of Web 2.0: Using blogs to support teaching and learning

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  • Daniel Churchill
چکیده

Introduction Over the last couple of years I have been advocating and exploring educational uses of Web 2.0 applications at a university in Hong Kong. This culminated in a concerted research effort under the umbrella project ‘Pioneering Web 2.0 in education’ which includes smaller projects exploring applications of Wikies, blogs, social networking and social book-marking. This paper briefly reports outcomes of a small inquiry exploring the use of blogs with a class of post-graduate students.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • BJET

دوره 40  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009