Blogs: innovative possibility for teaching portuguese?

Innovative Teaching and Teaching Improvement

Teaching Portuguese using serious games

Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) systems aim to teach a language providing technology and motivation to the user. They allow us to implement pedagogical content, motivational techniques and corrective feedback. On this basis, we present Medieval Adventure, which is a CALL system that aims to teach Portuguese’s basic levels to adults. Medieval Adventure teaches a second language mainly...

Innovative teaching methods in Engineering

Second, structures, practices and methodologies of the current educational systems are not suitable enough to support the learning needs of the Knowledge Society. During the latter half of the past century, international thinking about education began to shift to a new paradigm. This shift was driven by an awareness of massive and on-going social, economic and technological changes, and the exp...

Teaching with wikis and blogs: Potentials and pitfalls

The use of wikis and blogs within higher education and continuing professional development is becoming increasingly popular. On the face of it, these tools seem ideal for facilitating learnercentered activities based on the production of material by the learner himor herself, potentially drawing on different contexts of learning in and across school settings. Over the last few years, a number o...

Exploring Students Perceptions of Blogs During Teaching Practice Placements

From the onset, blogs served as personal social networking tools. More recently, blogs have facilitated the formation of online social networked communities and have thus expanded to more extensive uses in education. This paper explore the use of blogs to foster e-learning communities in empowering and supporting Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) students, who were learning to teach...