Abstract:

Communication technologies play a central role in society nowadays and young people are their most enthusiastic and clued-up users. Weblogs are simple free editing and publishing tools, available to everyone with a computer and Internet connection. This communication tool can help students and teachers to improve their communication and encourage students to get involved in classroom subjects. However, it is important to acquire solid knowledge about weblogs in order to be able to use and explore them in all their potentialities. Only skilled competent users will be able to take full advantage of any tool. It is first necessary to educate users and provide them with the skills required to become competent media users. To the best of our knowledge, so far no weblog analysis guides have been published. Hence, the aim of this project was to create a weblog analysis and evaluation guide proposal.

Keywords:

Computer mediated communication, Cooperative/collaborative learning, Improving classroom teaching, Interactive learning environments, Media in education.