USING BLOGS TO ENHANCE LITERACY: The Next Powerful Step in 21st Century Learning
By Diane Penrod
Adolescents spend an average of nearly six hours a day online, with much of this time focused on blogging. Whether they're writing on MySpace, Xanga, LiveJournal, or their own web page, these youngsters invest time and energy creating an online social identity. Using Blogs to Enhance Literacy examines this phenomenon and its relationship to education, offering solutions to issues such as bullying and the growing digital divide between students and their teachers and parents.
Contents:
Why Blog?
Blogging and new literacies
Gender and Blogging
Ethnicity and Blogging
Encouraging safe blogging practices
Integrating multiple intelligences and blogging
Creating a classroom ethics for blogging
Blogging matters
Call Number: PE1422 .P46 2007
By Diane Penrod
Adolescents spend an average of nearly six hours a day online, with much of this time focused on blogging. Whether they're writing on MySpace, Xanga, LiveJournal, or their own web page, these youngsters invest time and energy creating an online social identity. Using Blogs to Enhance Literacy examines this phenomenon and its relationship to education, offering solutions to issues such as bullying and the growing digital divide between students and their teachers and parents.
Contents:
Why Blog?
Blogging and new literacies
Gender and Blogging
Ethnicity and Blogging
Encouraging safe blogging practices
Integrating multiple intelligences and blogging
Creating a classroom ethics for blogging
Blogging matters
Call Number: PE1422 .P46 2007
2 comments:
Hey Marie,
I really the jist of your blog! I voted for "books to order" also...Great idea.....Colleen
I really like your blog and will use it to quickly link to publishers.
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