Student Blogs - How Online Writing Can Transform Your Classroom

This book investigates blogs as digital spaces where students can practice writing and converse with an authentic audience. It focuses on idea development and gives students voice.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Planning and Integrating Blogging into the Curriculum
Chapter Two: Preparing Students for Blogging in the Classroom
Chapter Three: Blogging in Action
Chapter Four: Nurturing a Community of Writers through Blogging
Chapter Five: Blogging and Understanding Copyright and Fair Use
Chapter Six: Doing Assessment Differently Throughout Blogging
OUR PARTING COMMENTS
References
Relevant Scholarship and Practice
Appendix

About the author

Anne P. Davis is a retired educator, still learning, who taught at the elementary and university level. She is considered a pioneer in educational blogging and was elected as a co-winner for the best teacher blog, EduBlog Insights, in the second international Edublog Awards.

Ewa McGrail is a leader in literacy research whose publications and work reflect interests in digital writing and new media composition, copyright and media literacy, and technology use in teaching and learning. She also explores the experiences of students and educators from outgroups or who are otherwise not in the mainstream.

Summary

This book investigates blogs as digital spaces where students can practice writing and converse with an authentic audience. It focuses on idea development and gives students voice.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Davis, Anne Mcgrail Davis, Anne P Davis, Anne P Mcgrail Davis, Anne P. Davis, Anne P. Mcgrail Davis, Davis Anne, Ewa McGrail, McGrail Ewa
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781475831719
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-3171-9
• No. of pages: 120
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; English, EDUCATION / Computers & Technology, blogging, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: English language: reading & writing skills, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies, EDUCATION / Teaching / Materials & Devices