does blogging enhance writing?
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Does Blogging Enhance Writing?
• Empirical Research is limited
• Opinion and advocacy articles are plentiful
• Qualitative studies outnumber Quantitative
• Many studies on foreign language learning and high school and college
• Few research articles focus on elementary school
Guiding Questions?
• Does blogging impact motivation?
• Does blogging encourage writing?
• Does blogging improve writing skills?
Collaborative Blogging (between elementary students)
• “Integrating 21st Century Skills in Schools Using a Class Blogging Project”
• Rural West Virginia, 2007
• Quantitative and Qualitative data
• First-time bloggers
• Half of students began blogging at home
Collaborative Blogging(between undergraduates)
• “Blogging in the Classroom: A Preliminary Exploration of Student Attitudes and Impacts on Comprehension”
• 52 students at a Midwest
university, 2005
• Online surveys
• Public postings prompted
more writing and more thought
Blogging and Complex Writing
• “Does Teaching Complex Sentences Have to be Complicated? Lessons from Children’s Online Writing”
• British 5th grade students wrote
248 blogs about 2006 World Cup
• Analyzed writing by genres and purpose
• Examined phrasing and vocabulary
• Analyzed sentence types and structures
Collaborative Blogging (between students and adults)
• “Collaborative Blogging as a Means to Develop Elementary Expository Writing Skills.”
• 2006 nine-week Native American project
• 3rd grade students & pre-service teachers, Florida• http://w3.shorecrest.org/~thirdgrade/GR3/Drexlerclasswebsite/projects.html
• Examined surveys, notes, concept maps
• Interviewed participants
Overall Themes
• Increases student motivation
• Does not promote use of “textese”
• Increases complexity of written language
• Emphasizes the importance of feedback rather than the actual technology
• Differentiates instruction
Educational Implications
• Supplements classroom instruction
• Enhances writing skills in general
• Applicable to multiple content areas
• Allows differentiated instruction
Limitations
• Student access to computers
• Class schedule and timing
• Partners
• Teacher and student training
• Multiple log-ins and passwords
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