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The World Is Flat: Using Blogs and Skype to Create Communities of Learners and Cultural Literacy

The World Is Flat: Using Blogs and Skype to Create Communities of Learners and Cultural Literacy

Title:The World Is Flat: Using Blogs and Skype to Create Communities of Learners and Cultural Literacy (ID: ELI07162)
Author(s):Barbara Ganley (Middlebury College), Barbara Sawhill (Oberlin College), Elizabeth Geballe (Middlebury College) and Evelyn Levine (Oberlin College)
Topics:Communication, Communications Software, Skype, Social Computing, Virtual Community, Web 2.0
Origin:ELI Meetings (01/22/2007)
Type:Presentations and Seminars
Abstract:This session will discuss how social software and Web 2.0 tools have been used on campus to connect learners and countries, to encourage cultural literacy, and to create communities of practice and mutual apprenticeship to create quantifiable learning outcomes for writing and language students both in and outside the classroom.
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