Organizing new interactions: internet portals in the instructional computer lab

  • Authors:
  • Owen G. McGrath

  • Affiliations:
  • U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

  • Venue:
  • SIGUCCS '01 Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The U.C. Berkeley E-BABEL project centers on an internet portal for university-level foreign language learners. With E-BABEL's integrated set of linking and communication tools, foreign language instructors are able to offer their students well organized ways on the internet to use, encounter, and reflect upon the language they are studying. Built using the JA-SIG's uPortal technology, the E-BABEL environment's flexible and easily personalized interface addresses the concerns of instructors who bring or send their students to campus computer labs to access the rich and varied foreign language resources on the internet, but subsequently worry with good reason that their students will become lost in cyberspace.