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Using blogs to enhance literacy : the next powerful step in 21st-century learning / Diane Penrod.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Penrod, Diane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Discourse analysis.
- English language.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Data processing.
- Computers and literacy.
- Discourse analysis, Literary.
- Communication--Technological innovations.
- Communication.
- Literary form.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 175 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007.
- Summary:
- Adolescents spend an average of nearly six hours a day online, with much of this time focused on blogging. Whether they're writing on MySpace, Xanga, LiveJournal, or their own web page, these youngsters invest time and energy creating an online social identity. Using Blogs to Enhance Literacy examines this phenomenon and its relationship to education, offering solutions to issues such as bullying and the growing digital divide between students and their teachers and parents.
- Contents:
- Why blog?
- Blogging and new literacies
- Blogs as a new writing genre
- Gender and blogging
- Ethnicity and blogging
- Blogs and bullying
- Encouraging safe blogging practices
- Integrating multiple intelligences and blogging
- Creating classroom ethics for blogging
- Blogging matters.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781578865659
- 1578865654
- 9781578865666
- 1578865662
- OCLC:
- 71842601
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