MODERN TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES IN LEARNING

BLOG

• A blog can be described as a very simple web page.
• In blogs ,entries or posts are organised in reverse chronological order.
• A blog is usually open to the public.
• It is free to create.
• It is generally the work of one author.
• We can watch group blogs
• Blogs are regarded as a form of personal publication on inter.net.

Educational implications of blogs

• Blog act as a classroom notice board.
• The students' documents ,discussion reports, collaborative work results etc. can enter to the blog.
• The blogs are used as the students' learning reflection tool.
• Blogs encourage students to write and read about a topic and also it promotes the students to comment it.
• Bloggers are continually search, fitter, and post the new ideas and information.
• They always engage in higher order thinking.
• Blog readers provide the feedback.
• The feedback helps the students to improve their own works

ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARD

• Electronic bulletin board is a communication system.
• It is a pipe line communication through personal computers and phone lines.
• An online connection is needed.
• A user can request through this system , entering data, requesting new data, and requesting files to the transferred.
• Electronic bulletin boards are totally public.
• A large collection of electronic bulletin boards is known as a newsgroups.
• Thousands of newsgroups exist on the world wide web.
• It operates in a very simple manner.
• Any person can start a discussion on a particular topic and then wait for replies.
• Then we will get different opinions from public.
• The main advantage of this system is '' public '' .

E-RESOURCES

• An electronic resource is a bibliographic or full text data base information source.
• In this research we can search for relevant articles in our subject area.
• A book or journal that has been made available in electronic format.
• Our e-resource include lot of things such as full-text journals, newspapers ,company information ,e-books ,dictionaries, encyclopaedias, economic data,  digital images , industry profiles , market research career information etc.
• E-resource include electronic journals , online database and electronic books , thousands of articles etc.
• E-resource may be classified in to two. (1) .On line e-resource (2). Off line e-resource.
• Online e- resource----e-book, e- journal , e-mail, sms/mms , e-library , e-forum.
• Offline e-resource----cd rom, offline e-book , MS office application, pdf convertor.