The educated blogger
June 9th, 2004From the latest First Monday: The educated blogger
“This paper explores the role of weblogs or ‘blogs’ in classroom settings. Blogs, which resemble personal journals or diaries and provide an online venue where self-expression and creativity is encouraged and online communities are built, provide an excellent opportunity for educators to advance literacy through storytelling and dialogue. This paper explores the importance of literacy and storytelling in learning, and then juxtaposes these concepts with the features of blogs. The paper also reviews examples of blogs in practice.”
Printed out for at-work-lunch reading. I love the concept the “advancement of literacy” through weblogs. In the library weblog world, we already have the Information Literacy Weblog, but I wonder if librarians and educators can combine these two types of literacy (storytelling and information) with weblogs to create a new learning schema. Could make for an interesting research paper…