Value of blogs in preservice teacher education

Liping Deng*, Allan H.K. Yuen

*Corresponding author for this work

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    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 languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009
    EditorsSiu 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
    PublisherAsia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education
    Pages872-879
    Number of pages8
    ISBN (Print)9789868473539
    Publication statusPublished - Nov 2009
    Event17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009 - , Hong Kong
    Duration: 30 Nov 20094 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

    NameProceedings of International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE

    Conference

    Conference17th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2009
    Country/TerritoryHong Kong
    Period30/11/094/12/09
    Internet address

    Scopus Subject Areas

    • Computer Science (miscellaneous)
    • Education

    User-Defined Keywords

    • Blogs
    • Preservice teacher education
    • Reflection
    • Weblogs

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