Abstract
Accompanying the popularity of blog technology as a dominant online publishing paradigm is a growing interest in its educational benefits. This paper sets out to understand the role of blogs in supporting a dispersed community of preservice teachers through content analysis of their blogs and comments. A model of the educational affordances of blogs is proposed to examine how blogs can support self-expression, self-reflection, social interaction, and reflective dialogue on the part of student teachers. This paper revealed that the salient value of blogs centered on emotion-laden and social-oriented individual expressions and reflection. The interactive functionality of blogs was used mostly for exchanging social support rather than reflective dialogue.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009 |
Editors | Siu Cheung Kong, Hiroaki Ogata, Hans Christian Arnseth, Carol K. K. Chan, Tsukasa Hirashima, Fanny Klett, Jimmy Lee, Chen Chung Liu, Chee Kit Looi, Marcelo Milrad, Antonija Mitrovic, Kiyoshi Nakabayashi, Su Luan Wong, Stephen Yang |
Publisher | Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education |
Pages | 872-879 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789868473539 |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2009 |
Event | 17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009 - , Hong Kong Duration: 30 Nov 2009 → 4 Dec 2009 https://apsce.net/icce/ICCE2009/140.115.135.84/icce/ICCE2009/proceedings.html https://apsce.net/icce/ICCE2009/140.115.135.84/icce/ICCE2009/contentpro.html |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE |
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Conference
Conference | 17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009 |
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Country/Territory | Hong Kong |
Period | 30/11/09 → 4/12/09 |
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Scopus Subject Areas
- Computer Science (miscellaneous)
- Education
User-Defined Keywords
- Blogs
- Preservice teacher education
- Reflection
- Weblogs