Abstract

FORTE, Glenilce Maria de Sousa  and  ROCHA, Sinara Socorro Duarte. Quem você conhece? Discutindo as possibilidades pedagógicas do Orkut. ETD [online]. 2007, vol.09, n.01, pp.69-83. ISSN 1676-2592.

This article seeks investigate the many educational possibilities of virtual communities, with emphasis on the site relationship Orkut, examining their characteristics, and emergency operating in cyberspace. It discusses the possibility of using booth ways in a single subject-the-mapping his journey as a social perspective, to form new virtual communities around common interests, but facing educational activities. Among the various virtual communities in this site, is considered only the virtual communities formed for the purpose of understanding the potential of network in the learning process of students and the continues training of teachers. Initially concludes that the Internet has transformed social and learning relations through the cyberspace that the great challenge is to carry this innovation within the school walls, been necessary the interaction between government and academic society, and the technological educational system a decisive role in this process of transformation of the classroom.

Keywords : Virtual Communities; Orkut; New Techonologic in Education.

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