Weblogs for Literacy
Did I ever mention to you the I LOVE the Internet and have yet to be bored in life because the Internet is so full of cool and new information. My latest find is a site call First Monday which is one of the first free, openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/
And one of my favorite articles on First Monday is a paper by David Huffaker called The educated blogger: Using weblogs to promote literacy in the classroom
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_6/huffaker/index.html
“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.”
This is the paper you print off and bring to your administration to say “Yes!” we should be blogging in our classrooms! Yes! We should embrace the internet and use it to help our student’s learn! What have you been blogging about lately??????—Donna