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Does Blogging Enhance Writing?

Does Blogging Enhance Writing?. Empirical Research is limited Opinion and advocacy articles are plentiful Qualitative studies outnumber Quantitative Many studies on foreign language learning and high school and college Few research articles focus on elementary school. Guiding Questions?.

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Does Blogging Enhance Writing?

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  1. Does Blogging Enhance Writing? • Empirical Research is limited • Opinion and advocacy articles are plentiful • Qualitative studies outnumber Quantitative • Many studies on foreign language learning and high school and college • Few research articles focus on elementary school

  2. Guiding Questions? • Does blogging impact motivation? • Does blogging encourage writing? • Does blogging improve writing skills?

  3. Collaborative Blogging (between elementary students) • “Integrating 21st Century Skills in Schools Using a Class Blogging Project” • Rural West Virginia, 2007 • Quantitative and Qualitative data • First-time bloggers • Half of students began blogging at home

  4. Collaborative Blogging(between undergraduates) “Blogging in the Classroom: A Preliminary Exploration of Student Attitudes and Impacts on Comprehension” 52 students at a Midwest university, 2005 Online surveys Public postings prompted more writing and more thought

  5. Blogging and Complex Writing • “Does Teaching Complex Sentences Have to be Complicated? Lessons from Children’s Online Writing” • British 5th grade students wrote 248 blogs about 2006 World Cup • Analyzed writing by genres and purpose • Examined phrasing and vocabulary • Analyzed sentence types and structures

  6. Collaborative Blogging(between students and adults) • “Collaborative Blogging as a Means to Develop Elementary Expository Writing Skills.” • 2006 nine-week Native American project • 3rd grade students & pre-service teachers, Florida • http://w3.shorecrest.org/~thirdgrade/GR3/Drexlerclasswebsite/projects.html • Examined surveys, notes, concept maps • Interviewed participants

  7. Overall Themes Increases student motivation Does not promote use of “textese” Increases complexity of written language Emphasizes the importance of feedback rather than the actual technology Differentiates instruction

  8. Educational Implications Supplements classroom instruction Enhances writing skills in general Applicable to multiple content areas Allows differentiated instruction

  9. Limitations • Student access to computers • Class schedule and timing • Partners • Teacher and student training • Multiple log-ins and passwords

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