BLOGUER À LA FAC
ON USING BLOGS AT THE FACULTY

Summary/Abstract: As “social phenomenon” or “fashion”, the blogs are widely known for their capacity to trigger the interest of the young population, taking the place of the previously idolized culture of the SMS or messenger. The project “Blogger à la fac” has different and complementary premises: can one find anything beneficial for the disciplinary and trans-disciplinary learning of the students in this new technology? By using the blog, does the teacher have the opportunity to educate his/her students through this innovative technology or to teach them how to use the internet responsibly? Quite obviously, the implementation of a local experiment would be necessary in order to be able to answer these questions: to create a blog at the Faculty of Letters, from the University of Oradea, - a blog which could persuade the students to take part in an online workshop of creative writing. The goal of the project is to gather objective reflections based on an actual experimentation of pedagogical projects with a focus on the management of new Internet services in order to draw some conclusions regarding the process of teaching and learning with the support of a new means of communication. Focusing on the writing (reading-writing), the blogs represent the new technology which can be easily integrated into pedagogy and into the new teaching methods. However, as a technological means of learning and know-how of the Internet, the integration of the blogs in the university sector is expected to have a strong potential to emulate and motivate both the students and the teacher. In addition, this activity centered on writing requires the adaptation of the pedagogical contents, of the syllabus and of the evaluation criteria. By far, the most important ingredient is to have access to the necessary equipments so that the students concerned have the opportunity to read or post their writings. Finally, the experience “Blogger à la fac” represents a great challenge to discern whether the faculty is able or not to adapt to the development of new technologies, to integrate them in the process of teaching-learning and to exploit their advantages.

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