Classroom Blogging With Intermediate Students
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2015-07-16
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Leakey, Krista
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This project examines classroom blogging at the intermediate (Grades 3-5) level. Blogging is a way for teachers to integrate new literacies into their classrooms. The two guiding questions for this project were: (1) How can students’ classroom-based blogging be realized and supported at the elementary level? and (2) What are the best practices for implementing classroom blogs? References to theoretical frameworks and a review of literature supports the use of blogs in classrooms. This literature suggests that blogs help improve students’ written output by motivating them to write; encourages a collaborative setting with the peer feedback feature of blogs; and fosters metacognitive awareness by enabling students to reflect on previous work. This projects offers a guide for teachers new to blogging as it provides curricular information, cyber safety and digital citizenship lessons. In addition, suggestions for blog platforms, criteria and assessment, and exemplars are offered. The project ends with a discussion of digital writing, blogging ideas, and peer feedback instruction. After reading this project, teachers should have a better understanding of what they should consider, or do, in order to successfully implement student blogs into their classroom practice.
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Blogging, Intermediate Students