A review of using weblogs for teaching and learning

dc.contributor.advisorLiu, Min, Ed. D.en
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHughes, Joanen
dc.creatorWen, Yu-Chien
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-04T14:49:07Zen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-11T22:19:59Z
dc.date.available2010-06-04T14:49:07Zen
dc.date.available2017-05-11T22:19:59Z
dc.date.issued2009-08en
dc.date.submittedAugust 2009en
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractWeblogs, one of the Web 2.0 applications, are popular among this Internet generation. Nevertheless, researchers have just begun to study their affordances for education. This report reviews the literature published in the past five years on using weblogs in teaching and learning and identifies most prominent characteristics of weblogs. It finds that weblogs have the potential to support teachers’ pedagogical strategies in terms of knowledge construction, social development, new literacies, reflection, communication and collaboration, and home-school connection. This report also compares contemporary educational blogging services, Edublogs and 21Classes, to provide practitioners some insights about how to practice blogging in their classroom. This paper concludes with an emphasis on teachers’ roles in technology integration and discusses future direction for research on academic use of weblogs.en
dc.description.departmentCurriculum and Instructionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-08-259en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.subjectweblogen
dc.subjectWeb 2.0en
dc.titleA review of using weblogs for teaching and learningen
dc.type.genrethesisen

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