Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Online Learning: Ning and Writing to Learn - Nathalie Ettzevoglou and Jessica McBride, EDUCAUSE Quarterly
•Writing effectively is academically and professionally crucial for students, and helping them attain that skill is a major goal for writing instruction.
•The social networking site Ning offers a variety of Web 2.0 tools that can help students learn to write as well as write to learn.
•A small pilot in a University of Connecticut writing course demonstrated Ning’s effectiveness in helping students write to learn.

 



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