IL 2.0 at the American University in Cairo: Flickr in the classroom

Internet Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-13

  Bussert, Kaila ^a,b   Brown, Nicole E ^b   Armstrong, Alison H ^b,c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Critical thinking; Curiosity; IL 2.0; Information literacy; Learning; Social software; Teaching; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650003665     PISSN: 10875301     EISSN: 15404749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J136v13n01_01     Document Type: Article

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