Student Blogs: How Online Writing Can Transform Your Classroom

Ewa McGrail

ISBN 10: 1475831706 / ISBN 13: 9781475831702

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK), 2017

About this Item

This book investigates blogs as digital spaces where students can practice writing and converse with an authentic audience. It focuses on idea development and gives students voice. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; JNT; JNU; JNV; YQCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349. . 2016. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Student Blogs: How Online Writing Can Transform Your Classroom
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475831706
• ISBN 13: 9781475831702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

How do students become successful writers and excited about writing? Blogging or other online writing in your classroom can build literacies in all content areas by giving students the frequent writing practice that is missing in classrooms today. Students have to write to get better at writing. They need to write to an authentic audience― real people who are interested in what they have to say and are willing to comment back and engage in further conversation. Simply put, they need practice time in interactive writing. How might teachers do this? This book is the answer to this question. The book investigates blogs as digital spaces where students can practice writing and converse with an authentic audience. It focuses on idea development and gives students voice. Today’s students already occupy or will inhabit new online spaces in the future. Schools and teachers must move forward with the students and embrace this world across the curriculum in purposeful and creative ways. This will transform schools and teacher classrooms!

About the Author

Anne P. Davis is a retired educator, still learning, who taught at the elementary and university level. She is considered a pioneer in educational blogging and was elected as a co-winner for the best teacher blog, EduBlog Insights, in the second international Edublog Awards.

Ewa McGrail is a leader in literacy research whose publications and work reflect interests in digital writing and new media composition, copyright and media literacy, and technology use in teaching and learning. She also explores the experiences of students and educators from outgroups or who are otherwise not in the mainstream.