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Teaching a Foreign Language to Deaf People via Vodcasting & Web 2.0 Tools

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Organizational, Business, and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2010)

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This paper presents the design and development of an e-learning course in teaching deaf people in a foreign language, whose first language is the sign language. The course is based in e-material, vodcasting and web 2.0 tools such as social networking and blog The course has been designed especially for deaf people and it is exploring the possibilities that e-learning material vodcasting and web 2.0 tools can offer to enhance the learning process and achieve more effective learning results.

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Drigas, A., Vrettaros, J., Tagoulis, A., Kouremenos, D. (2010). Teaching a Foreign Language to Deaf People via Vodcasting & Web 2.0 Tools. In: Lytras, M.D., Ordonez de Pablos, P., Ziderman, A., Roulstone, A., Maurer, H., Imber, J.B. (eds) Organizational, Business, and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society. WSKS 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16324-1_60

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