Title :
Mobile community blog: Enhanced support for mobile collaborative language learners
Author :
Petersen, Sobah Abbas
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Norwegian Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Trondheim
Abstract :
Blogs have become a popular medium to support a community of learners. We have used the concept of a mobile community blog to support a class of students studying French at university. Based on the evaluation of the use of the blog by these students, we have extended the capabilities of the blog to provide better support for a community of learners and to create a sense of community among the learners. The serendipity open source Weblog system has been used. This paper describes the enhanced capabilities of the mobile community blog.
Keywords :
Web sites; computer aided instruction; mobile computing; public domain software; learners community; mobile collaborative language learners; mobile community blog; serendipity open source Weblog system; Blogs; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Educational technology; Feedback; Information services; Internet; Mobile computing; Natural languages; Web sites; Collaboration Enabling Technologies; Collaboration and Education; Collaborative Applications; Mobile and Wireless Collaborative Systems; Web-enabled Collaboration;
Conference_Titel :
Collaborative Technologies and Systems, 2007. CTS 2007. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-0-9785699-1-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-9785699-1-4
DOI :
10.1109/CTS.2007.4621773
