Article 2for Lit. Review

Article 2

APA Citation: Kajder, S. and Bull G. (2004). A space for “writing without writing:”
Blogs in the language arts classroom. Learning and leading with technology
31.6, 32-35. Retrieved from ERIC database 23 July 2007.


I. Title: A space for “writing without writing:” Blogs in the language arts classroom.

II. Author: Sara Kajder and Glen Bull

III. Author’s Purpose for Writing: To explore how teachers are using blogging in innovative ways

IV. What are the points made in the review of the literature? Do they support the need for the study? Because the phenomenon of blogging is so recent, it cannot yet be reliably assessed since it is still evolving.

V. Author’s Inquiry Question: How is blogging being used in a language arts classroom?

VI.
A. Author’s methodology: They tracked a 7th grade language arts teacher who was using blogs with student writing and wanted to use blogging for journaling.

B. Who is being studied? A 7th grade language arts teacher and her students

C. Over what length of time? One year

D. What data is being collected? The frequency and the length of the student blogging efforts

VII. How the author collected information: They had the teacher narrate her successes and difficulties of instituting a blogging program.

VIII. What the author discovered: They found that not all parents are wiling to allow their children to be bloggers. Also, it was too time-consuming for the teacher to set up all the blogs, and the students were taught to do so. Students wrote more in their blogs because of the ease of typing, and they enjoyed communicating with their teacher via the blog. Students suffered less from writer’s block using blogs. Finally, the authors realized that students were eager to communicate with each other and share ideas with each other via a blog, which they would be less inclined to do person to person.