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A study on the perception of students towards educational weblogs (Informatic in Education)"This paper investigates student perception towards the purposes of blogging. It reports an experience of introducing blogging tasks to third year computing students, and compares their perception with students not participating in the blogging tasks. A student perception model is proposed to explain the difference in the perception due to the experience in blogging. The paper concludes that mandatory use of weblogs in a course can gradually cultivate educationally sound perceptions in students despite of the observed misuse." Blogs: Applications in Science Education (JCST)Erica Brownstein and Robert Klein present an up-to-date study concerning the use of blogs in education. They elaborate a set of rules for evaluating and implementing blogs in teaching college sience.
Educational Blogging (Educause)"Despite obvious appearances, blogging isn’t really about writing at all; that’s just the end point of the process, the outcome that occurs more or less naturally if everything else has been done right." Stephen Downes Full article here. Blogging as a Dynamic, Transformative Medium in an American Liberal Arts Classroom (Barbara Ganley)"This paper demonstrates how students become the course, using the interface as a way to “take over” as their own teachers, creating an “Other” of the teacher in a unique synthesis of online and face-to-face work..." Link and full article here. The Educated Blogger: Using Weblogs to Promote Literacy in Classroom (David Huffaker)This article explores the role of weblogs in promoting literacy in classroom settings. It says that weblogs provide an excellent tool where storytelling and literacy advance for both individual expressions and collaborative learning. Weblogs can be used across academic disciplines. Full text here. |
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