Web 2.0 in classics: the use of blogs for monitoring students’ knowledge of ancient Greek grammar

Abstract

This paper aims to introduce the use of blogs in the obligatory course “Greek Grammarʺ, of the Bachelor Degree in Classics at the University of Barcelona in order to increase the students’ competences in managing and organizing their learning and to make their studies more attractive and adapted to the new learning tools and trends. The methodology followed considers primarily the active participation of students in the course activities and enables students to take advantage of the available online tools to interact with each other, or even work together and with their instructor.

Keywords

• Web 2.0
• blogs
• ancient Greek grammar
• learning management
• students’ monitoring