Exploiting the Distinctiveness of Blogs to Overcome Geographic Isolation

Title
Exploiting the Distinctiveness of Blogs to Overcome Geographic Isolation
Publication Date
2014
Author(s)
Adlington, Rachael
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8696-2347
Email: radlingt@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:radlingt
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA)
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:16783
Abstract
This paper explores the distinctiveness of the blog as a new kind of text and the capacity for blogs to connect and engage students in distinctively different ways. Web 2.0 provides many opportunities to connect otherwise geographically isolated people. Further, Web 2.0 texts, such as blogs, cultivate new techno-social communicative practices. To take advantage of blogs in rural educational settings, an understanding of the affordances of these new texts must inform English curriculum development and teaching. The paper discusses the ways in which blogs differ from other texts, and how opportunities for co-authorship may be used to overcome geographical isolation for students.
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Citation
Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 24(3), p. 1-13
ISSN
1839-7387
Start page
1
End page
13

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