Blogging in the Writing Classroom: A move Toward Dialogue, Design, and Citizenship

A bridge connecting student's new multi-modal abilities and schooling can be built. Students choose between school and other activities outside of the classroom walls (and sometimes even inside the classroom) and schoolwork seems to be losing ground in the battle of spare time more and more. Students could benefit from an electronic space that incorporates their media know-how, their studies, and others in the classroom. Blogs, or weblogs, provide just that type of space by relying on the user's insightful writing and creativity to retain a dynamic position in the Internet blogging community. Blogs have the ability to better the writing classroom by providing an educational forum for dialogue, spatial creativity, and social awareness.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2007

Author dc:creator

• Foster, Meghan E.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Patricia H. Perry

• technology
• creative outlet
• self expression
• communication
• personal publishing
• social network
• literacy education
• Arts and Humanities
• English Language and Literature

Statement dc:rights

• © The Author

Identifier

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/754

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-1753