Weblog is an Internet tool that is believed to possess great potential to facilitate learning in education. This study wants to know if weblog can be used to promote students’ critical thinking. It used a group of secondary two students from a Singapore school to write weblogs as a means of substitution for their traditional handwritten assignments. The topics for the weblogging are taken from ...

This study uses quantitative method to examine whether or not a social constructivist theory-driven pedagogical model integrated with weblogs is associated with improved critical thinking skills. Forty secondary two students at the age of 13 completed a series of extra-curricular activities designed according to a proposed model within ten months. Half of these students came from high ability c...

Currently, there are many weblog that have been posting many story and news about political issues in Malaysia. Therefore, it draws Internet space as an area for political bloggers to be involves in cyber war. There are many factors that contribute to this cyber war such as opinions from bloggers, spreading of rumors and information through cyberspace. Most of the political leaders from politic...

In order to exploit the huge volume of information being published in the blogosphere, it is essential to provide techniques such as clustering, which can automatically analyze and classify their contents. However these typically can produce better results when dealing with wide domain full-text documents. In most cases however, blogs can be considered to be “short texts”, i.e., they are not ex...

Although, the Blogosphere is part of the World Wide Web, weblogs present several features that differentiate them from traditional websites: the number of different editors, the multitude of topics, the connectivity among weblogs and bloggers, the update rate, and the importance of time in rating are some of them. Traditional search engines perform poorly on blogs since they do not cover these ...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of weblog task assessment on iranian efl learners’ reading ability. to this purpose, a group of 30 english language students (both male and female) in rozaneh language institute in najafabad were selected based on their performance on the opt. the researchers tried to select a homogeneous sample in terms of age factor and proficiency level...

We consider information fusion an ‘active service’, which aims to adapt the presentation of the information to the user. Our work concerns the Internet, a scale-free small world graph, with the tasks being the evaluation of documents, novelty detection and collecting novel documents of ‘high value’ for the sake of the user. This procedure calls for user-computer interaction. To this end, four a...

In this paper, we propose an hybrid clustering based classification algorithm based on mean approach to effectively classify to mine the ordered sequences (paths) from weblog data in order to perform social network analysis. In the system proposed in this work for social pattern analysis, the sequences of human activities are typically analyzed by switching behaviors, which are likely to produc...