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BLOGS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDEPENDENT LEARNING SKILLS: A CASE STUDY OF A PRIMARY SCHOOL LITERATURE CLASS BLOGGING PROJECT Liam Morgan, University of Technology, Australia This paper seeks to contribute
to knowledge about the potential offered by blogs in literacy
education through the presentation of a case study of a book-talk
blog project carried out in 2011. The children’s blogging
constituted their personal responses to the books they were reading.
Using a multimodal framework, posts of 50 children were analysed to
gain a better understanding of the role blogs played in developing
independent learning skills within a collaborative online
environment. Interviews with teachers were also conducted to gain a
fuller understanding of contextual factors and variables. The
results indicate that the blogs provided ‘spaces’ within which
children can publish meaningful responses to their reading to an
informed audience representing aspects of ‘multiple selves’ (Döring,
2002). In order to do this, they make a range of choices relating to
images, text and embedding of media. Over the course of the
eight-week duration of this project, these choices evidenced the
development of skills and knowledge as well as an inclination to
“push the boundaries.” |
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