Fantasy Island Meets the Real World: Using Online Discussion Forums in Collaborative Learning

Susan Martens-Baker

doi:10.58680/ej20097128

ISSN: 0013-8274
E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Fantasy Island Meets the Real World: Using Online Discussion Forums in Collaborative Learning
Author(s): Susan Martens-Baker¹
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¹ Arlington High School in Arlington, Nebraska [email protected].
Source: English Journal, Volume 98, Issue 5, May 2009, p. 88 - 94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/ej20097128
- Published online: 01 May 2009

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Find out how teachers in different schools used the Internet to help their students work together to create utopian communities as an alternative to the society that develops in Lord of the Flies.

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