Blogs and Wikis: Environments for On-Line Collaboration

Discusses two recent innovations made available via the Internet that are useful to language educators: blogs and wikis. Blogs are on-line journals that offer opportunities for collaborative use. They are easily linked and cross-linked, thus creating larger on-line communities. Wikis feature a loose...

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Published in:Language learning & technology 2003-05, Vol.7 (2), p.12
Main Author: Goodwin-Jones, Bob
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer Assisted Instruction
Cooperation
Editing
Internet
Second Language Instruction
Second Language Learning
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Summary:Discusses two recent innovations made available via the Internet that are useful to language educators: blogs and wikis. Blogs are on-line journals that offer opportunities for collaborative use. They are easily linked and cross-linked, thus creating larger on-line communities. Wikis feature a loosely structured set of pages, linked in multiple ways to each other and to Internet resources and an open-editing system. (VWL)
ISSN:1094-3501
1094-3501