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

fYear

2007

fDate

25-25 May 2007

Firstpage

337

Lastpage

346

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CTS.2007.4621773

Filename

4621773