Using ICT tools

The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is to facilitate knowledge exchange.
Among the many ICT tools, such as blogs, e-mail, and wikis, is usually used to develop participants’ global awareness through collaboration and information exchange with other countries. These tools reduced the distance among the participants and provided them mutual form of communication and interaction. These ICT tools share similar features. They are affordable, easy to use, compatible with multimedia format files, and enable interaction. In addition, information on the blogs and wikis are achievable. Blogs allow the instructors to invite participants from multiple sites, to categorize information, and to publicize or hide the blog if privacy is an issue (Wang & Hsu, in press). The impact of these ICT tools is to increase participants’ awareness of the greater international cultures in an educational context, to enhance cross-cultural interaction between other countries, and to provide participants opportunities to use ICT tools.