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

Session Details

Monday, January 22, 2007
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Dogwood A Room

Session Type: Concurrent Session

Speaker(s)

Barbara Ganley, Director, Middlebury College
Elizabeth Geballe, Student, Middlebury College
Evelyn Levine, Student, Oberlin College
Barbara Sawhill, Director Cooper International Learning Center, Oberlin College
Session convener: Perry O. Hanson, III, VP & Vice Provost for Libraries & Information Technology, Brandeis University

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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