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Leveraging Course Leveraging Course Communication using Weblogs:Communication using Weblogs:
A Report on Students’ SatisfactionA Report on Students’ Satisfaction
Leveraging Course Leveraging Course Communication using Weblogs:Communication using Weblogs:
A Report on Students’ SatisfactionA Report on Students’ SatisfactionHend S. Al-Khalifa, PhD
Information Technology DepartmentCollege of Computer and Information Science
King Saud University, [email protected]
Outline
• Web 2.0 area
• Weblog
• Experiment
• Results
• Conclusion
Web 2.0
The New Internet –Web 2.0
The New Internet –Web 2.0
• Dynamic Services vs. Static Content.• Interactive & Customized Web
applications: RSS; Blogs; Wikis; etc.• User-Tagged Materials
– Del.icio.us - Social Bookmarks Manager http://del.icio.us/
– Flickr – Photos http://www.flickr.com
The New Internet –Web 2.0
Social
Weblogs
What is a Weblog?
• A personal set of entries, usually structured in reverse chronological order, published in a web-based log or journal.
Blog Anatomy
Archive Pages
AdditionalPage
Link to comments/Feedback
Categories
What are blogs good for?
1 2 3 4
Comm
unica
tion
Reduc
ing
emai
ls
Posting information on the web without web
design or programming
knowledge
Circulating documents/files/photos
Who is blogging?
• Individuals
• Companies
• Scientist
• Teachers
• Every body
Experiment
Experiment Setup
• A group of 105 female students studying a course in Operating Systems (OS).
• The main purpose of the Weblog was to: – Students’ inquiries (e.g. homework, exams, etc.)– Course announcements and course materials
dissemination (e.g. canceling/postponing lectures/tutorials, uploading slides, assignments, etc.)
– Collecting students’ opinions and feedbacks.– Sharing information (e.g. posting useful links).– Encouraging students’ interactions among them
selves and between them and their instructor.
A snapshot of the OS Weblog
http://cs332.wordpress.com
Results
Questionnaire
• A questionnaire consisted of 7 questions
• The initial sample consisted of 105 students of whom 12 did not complete all of the survey.
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
Question 5
Question 6
Conclusion
Conclusion
• It is evident from the results that most students accepted the idea of using Weblogs in classroom communication.
• I highly encourage using it for classroom interaction!
Thank you!Thank you!
www.hend-alkhalifa.com