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Reading Revolution: New Texts and New Technologies Using Blogs to Encourage Reading

Reading Revolution Blogs

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This presentation is for the K12 Online Conference 2008. This is my segment on using blogs as tools for literature response to encourage reading.

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Reading Revolution: New Texts and New Technologies

Using Blogs to Encourage Reading

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What is a blog?

• A blog (a contraction of the term "Web log") is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual [1], with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog on October 5, 2008

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Format of a Blog

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Why use blogging in Language Arts classroom?

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Examples of Blog Posts

• Elementary—What was your favorite part of the book Swimmy by Leo Lionni? Why?

• Middle School—Describe the setting of Hatchet. Why was the setting important?

• High School—How did Knowles use friendship and loyalty as themes in A Separate Peace? What other themes did you observe?

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