Facebook as an academic tool for ICT lecturers

Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association, SACLA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 16-22

  Cloete, Sonja ^a   De Villiers, Carina ^a   Roodt, Sumarie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Education; Web 2.0 technologies

Indexed keywords

FACEBOOK; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES;

COMPUTER CRIME; STUDENTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 70350639300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1562741.1562743     Document Type: Conference Paper

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