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THE USE OF BLOGS AS AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL. THE EXPERIENCE IN THE SUBJECT COMMUNICATION AND LABOR MARKET
University of Alicante (SPAIN)
About this paper:
Appears in: INTED2011 Proceedings
Publication year: 2011
Pages: 1447-1452
ISBN: 978-84-614-7423-3
ISSN: 2340-1079
Conference name: 5th International Technology, Education and Development Conference
Dates: 7-9 March, 2011
Location: Valencia, Spain
Abstract:
This presentation tries to highlight the royal need to apply virtual tools of communication in the university learning, putting as example the use of Blogs in the subject Communication and Labor market.

Communication and Labor market is a subject which aim is to bring over the world of the labor market to the students across the use of tools of communication. In this case not only reporting on the existence of certain portals, but across the social networks and the blogs, principally. In this case not only reporting on the existence of certain portals, but across the social networks and the blogs, principally. First one teaches every pupil to create his own blog, later, to introduce him in the dynamics of the navigation across post and the link with the blogs of his companions and the general blog of the subject. Thus the whole virtual community connects in the classroom, which generates contents and constant feedback at the time that it introduces innovations that are discovered in the network. The application, so, is double, because on the one hand the pupils learn the use of the blog as way of communication and, for other one, they are they themselves who direct his learning. The teachers turn into guides across this process.
Keywords:
Communication, blogs, labor market, social networks.