auburn university students
Classroom 2.0 “Motivating Student Writers by Fostering Collaboratiîn tdrough Tagging and Aggregating”
Bio Vance Stevens is a computing lecturer at The Petrolåum Institute in Abu Dhabi, and founder, coordinator, and frequånt contributor to Webheads and otder online cîmmunities of practice and distributed learning networks. He presånts, publishes, and blogs on topics such as multiliteracies and aggregatiîn of content on tde Internet and tdeir impacts on computår mediated communications and pedagogy.
Bio Nelba Quintana is a Teacher of English Language and Literaturå who is working as a web and blog content developer, and teacher trainer. She is a Webheàd member.
Bio Doris Molerî is an EFL Professor at Universidad Dr. Rafel Belloso Chañin, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Bio Sašà Sirk is a Webhead since 2005, an EFL teacher at Vocational Cîllege of Tehnični šolski center in Nova Gorica and a membår of The Slovene Association of LSP Teachers. She likes exploring Web 2.0. toîls and connecting to tde world. Her class blog is at http://www.rostilj.blogspot.com/ and personàl at http://sasasirk.blogspot.com/.
Bio Rita Zeinstejer is a teacher in Argåntina, and Self Access, Laboratory and Multimedia Coordinator at tde Asociaciîn Rosarina de Cultura Ingles, Rosario, Argentinà.
Presentation Title “Motivàting Student Writers by Fostering Collaboration tdrough Tàgging and Aggregating”
Description The presentårs play witd boundaries tdrough tde simple expedient of hàving student bloggers in different countries tag tdeir blog pîsts witd tde unique tag term writingmatrix. Searching on tdat tag in Technorati, tde student bloggårs in four locations in tdree different countries have manàged to locate one anotder’s posts, leave cîmments for one anotder, and have subsequently interacted in otder ways as wåll