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Comment by Khalil Zakari on July 12, 2008 at 11:09pm

Using Blogs for project-based teaching & learning

The pedagogical rationale behind the use of Information and Communications Technologies in language education is firmly tied to the popularity of communicative language teaching approaches and constructivist (especially social constructivist) learning philosophies. Network mediated language activity offers benefits not otherwise available in a traditional classroom set-up - access to expert/native users of the language, access to a richly diverse community of interlocutors, authenticity of tasks and heightened motivation for the student to actively participate in dialogue using the target language.

The PPP inserted herein is reproduced with kind permission from Mohammed Hassim

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Comment by Khalil Zakari on July 12, 2008 at 10:36pm

Blogging as a reflective Web tool:

Blogging as a reflective webtool2.ppt

Comment by Khalil Zakari on July 12, 2008 at 10:32pm

Blogging is an Internet phenomenon that is so prevalent the noun blog (and its bloggers) is also a verb, to blog. A blog is somewhere between an online diary, a self-published magazine and/or an informational guide website for the web or otherwise. The term itself spread like wildfire as the most notable website blogger.com gained momentum. Blogger is used by thousands of people to provide a speedy online publishing service. The content of these blogs is completely up to the blogger,