The role of digital artefacts on the interactive whiteboard in supporting classroom dialogue

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 463-489

  Hennessy, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artefact; Co construction; Dialogue; Interactive whiteboard; Multimodal

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054765254     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2011.00416.x     Document Type: Article

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