Mobile community blog: Enhanced support for mobile collaborative language learners

Abstract

Blogs have become a popular medium to support a community of learners. We have used the concept of a mobile community blog to support a class of students studying French at university. Based on the evaluation of the use of the blog by these students, we have extended the capabilities of the blog to provide better support for a community of learners and to create a sense of community among the learners. The serendipity open source Weblog system has been used. This paper describes the enhanced capabilities of the mobile community blog.