PRACTISING WEB DESIGN ESSENTIALS BY ITERATIVE BLOG DEVELOPMENT WITHIN A COMMUNITY PORTAL

Martin Homola, Zuzana Kubincová

2009

Abstract

Following constructionism and the learning by doing approach of Papert in our university web design course students are given the task of building a personal blogs. Students thus practice selected Web technologies. The task is supported by a dedicated web-based integrated development environment. Their blogs are interconnected and communication is available. Students are also encouraged to publish relevant articles on their blogs. We have observed competitiveness boosting, experience exchange, and overall increase of involvement with the course. Our experience suggests improved quality of learning to the benefit of our students.

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Homola M. and Kubincová Z. (2009). PRACTISING WEB DESIGN ESSENTIALS BY ITERATIVE BLOG DEVELOPMENT WITHIN A COMMUNITY PORTAL . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8111-82-1, pages 180-185. DOI: 10.5220/0001849901800185


in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu09,
author={Martin Homola and Zuzana Kubincová},
title={PRACTISING WEB DESIGN ESSENTIALS BY ITERATIVE BLOG DEVELOPMENT WITHIN A COMMUNITY PORTAL},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2009},
pages={180-185},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001849901800185},
isbn={978-989-8111-82-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - PRACTISING WEB DESIGN ESSENTIALS BY ITERATIVE BLOG DEVELOPMENT WITHIN A COMMUNITY PORTAL
SN - 978-989-8111-82-1
AU - Homola M.
AU - Kubincová Z.
PY - 2009
SP - 180
EP - 185
DO - 10.5220/0001849901800185