Monday, February 19, 2007

Summary on article: Bookmarking the world: Weblog applications in education

A quick summary for this article is that, Weblog, now a days, are becoming very popular as people search for high quality material. Weblog are used for sharing ideas and opinions from unique styles, and different point of views. Educators can use weblogs as sources of information
on important topics and as modes of online classroom interaction. Weblog development is an example of how the Internet has been brought into the classroom in advantageous yet feasible ways. In its early stages, only those who had access to business, university, or research computing facilities could make materials available on the Web. However, in recent years, Web page construction platforms have been made widely accessible through a number of free or low-cost services. Weblog development can empower students to become more analytical and critical; through actively responding to Internet materials, students can define their positions in the context of others' writings as well as outline their own perspectives on particular issues. Weblog can be topic oriented or wide ranging and can incorporate various amounts of personal or autobiographical information.

I selected this article because one of my educational technology questions were How to use weblogs in a classroom?, and this article explains how we could include them into our curriculum as teachers.

URL FOR ARTICLE:

http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.ezproxy.fgcu.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e921d53c70e8fdc310c588ee20146eda2ba3b0398af29e776c9a659fd65728096&fmt=H

Oravec, J. A. Bookmarking the world: Weblog applications in education. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy v. 45 no. 7 (April 2002) p. 616-21

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