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Monday January 19 2009

Teaching and Learning Using Blogs

Teaching and Learning Using Blogs Charles-Antoine Bachand Educational Advisor, Cégep de l'Outaouais

Useful References

USEFUL REFERENCES


Profweb Stories about Blogs in College Teaching in English and in French

Martin Benoit (2008). "Martin Benoit – Pedagogical Blogger", Profweb, March 17, 2008.


Remy Katshingu (2008). "Un blogue pour concilier la culture du « zapping » et l’école", Profweb, November 24, 2008.


Benoit Daviau (2008). "Une expérience de carnet de voyage «vite fait, bien fait»",Profweb, October 14, 2008.


Texts by Two Dedicated Academic Bloggers in English

D. Warlick http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/

W. Richardson http://weblogg-ed.com/

 

Research Bibliography

Xie, Y., Ke, F., & Sharma, P. (2008, January 1). The Effect of Peer Feedback for Blogging on College Students' Reflective Learning Processes. Internet and Higher Education, 11(1), 18.

Ellison, N., & Wu, Y. (2008, January 1). Blogging in the Classroom: A Preliminary Exploration of Student Attitudes and Impact on Comprehension. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 17(1), 99.

Kim, H. (2008, November 1). The Phenomenon of Blogs and Theoretical Model of Blog Use in Educational Contexts. Computers & Education, 51(3), 1342.

Ducate, L., & Lomicka, L. (2008, February 1). Adventures in the Blogosphere: From Blog Readers to Blog Writers. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 21(1), 9.

Warlick, D. (2007). Classroom Blogging. Raleigh:The Landmark Project, 183 pages.


Other Reference

FLENET: "Français langue étrangère et Internet". BLOGS / Carnets web – EDUCATION. Universidad de León. (page consulted January 12, 2009).

Comments by readersReact to this text

Wonderful Information on Blogs!

This information was very helpful to me. It has aided me in my Education Technology course assignment for gathering information on blogging because it answered my questions which were: Features of blogs, How it can work in teaching and learning and why is blogging effective. Thanking you for sharing your work, Respectfully yours, Deana Blossom.

Deana Blossom, Student / Teacher [2009-10-15]

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