Reconsidering usage of blogging in preservice teacher education courses

Internet and Higher Education

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 214-217

  Top, Ercan ^a   Yukselturk, Erman ^b   Inan, Fethi A ^c  

^a ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Course satisfaction; Instructional blogging; Learning community; Preservice teachers; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

BLOGGING; COURSE SATISFACTION; LEARNING COMMUNITY; PRE-SERVICE TEACHER; WEB 2.0;

BLOGS; INTERNET; WORLD WIDE WEB;

TEACHING;

EID: 78049470299     PISSN: 10967516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iheduc.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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