The educated blogger: Using Weblogs to promote literacy in the classroom

By David A. Huffaker. First Monday, 2004

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This paper explores the role of weblogs or "blogs" in classroom settings. Blogs, which resemble personal journals or diaries and provide an online venue where self–expression and creativity is encouraged and online communities are built, provide an excellent opportunity for educators to advance literacy through storytelling and dialogue. This paper explores the importance of literacy and storytelling in learning, and then juxtaposes these concepts with the features of blogs. The paper also reviews examples of blogs in practice.

Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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Gender, Identity, and Language Use in Teenage Blogs (2006, background): “One of the newest venues for exploration is the weblog, a reversed-chronological online journal, which is used in a variety of ways, but often as a personal journal or ongoing commentary about oneself (Herring, Scheidt, Bonus, & Wright, 2004a; Huffaker, 2004a).”
Enhancing perceived interactivity through network externalities: An empirical study on micro-blogging service satisfaction and continuance intention (2012, background): “All doi:10.1016/j.dss.2012.05.019 a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Available online 23 May 2012 Keywords: Micro-blogging service Satisfaction Continuance intention Perceived interactivity Network externalities Users' continuance intention is vital to the future of micro-blogging service with…”
The Influence of Classroom Blogging on Elementary Student Writing (2011, background): “Blogs also can facilitate literacy development through storytelling and dialogue, because their format encourages self-expression and recounting of personal events to the blogger community in nonverbal formats (Huffaker, 2005).”
Values as lived experience: evolving value sensitive design in support of value discovery (2009, background): “Historically, computing has been associated with enabling personal expression and collaboration [25], with creating opportunities for new forms of community [5], and with reshaping the world through a new economy of ideas [30].”