I discuss the educational use of Blogger for enhancing students' cognitive and social engagement.

1. BLOGGER
EDIT9990 Learner Engagement
Cool Tool Demo
Eunbae Lee
November 7, 2013

2. AGENDA
What is blog and what is blogger?
 What can blogger do for learning?
 What can blogger do to enhance engagement?
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3. BLOGGER
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Blog – Informational site published on the Internet
and consisting of "posts” typically displayed in
reverse chronological order (the most recent post
appears first).
http://eunbae.blogspot.com/

4. BLOGGER
Google Tool – Login with your Google ID and
connect to your other Google apps such as Gmail,
and Google+
 Reflective Writing – Academic Engagement
 Social Interaction – Social Engagement
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Commenting
 Follow
 Blog Roll
 Traffic analytics
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Other similar blogging tools
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Wordpress: professional, bells and whistles
Tumblr: Popular among teens, focused on following
rather than writing own

5. BLOGGER- HOW TO CREATE

6. BLOGGER- DASHBOARD

7. BLOGGER
Web-based journal writing
 Cognitive engagement (Finn & Zimmer, 2012).
 Writing is a complex cognitive task that supports
the construction of new knowledge by establishing
connections between prior domain knowledge and
knowledge about discourse (Bereiter&Scardamalia,
1987).
 Writing requires reflection and meaningful
expression of learned material (Hayes & Flower,
1986).
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8. BLOGGER- REFLECTIVE WRITING

9. BLOGGER - SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
(FREDERICKS ET. AL., 2004)
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Commenting

10. BLOGGER - SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
(FREDERICKS ET. AL., 2004)
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Social Media Connections

11. BLOGGER - SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT (FREDERICKS
ET. AL.,
2004)
Following
Blogroll

12. BLOGGER - SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
(FREDERICKS ET. AL., 2004)
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Traffic analytics

13. BLOGGER

Social interaction
Commenting
 Follow
 Blog Roll
 Traffic analytics


Other similar blogging tools
Wordpress: professional, bells and whistles
 Tumblr: Popular among teens, focused on following
rather than writing own


14. OTHER EDUCATIONAL USES OF BLOG
Class website
Competence
• EDIT2000
TeacherStudent-Parent
Communication
Relatedness
• Mrs. Terhune’s
First Grade Site
Student writing
publications
Autonomy
• Living alongside
Wildlife

15. DISCUSSION
Can blogging enhance students’ affective
engagement?
 What are some strategies to enhance behavioral
engagements through blogging?
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16. REFERENCES
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Bereiter, C., &Scardamalia, M. (1987). The psychology
of written composition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Finn, J. D., & Zimmer, K. S. (2012). Student
engagement: What is it? Why does it matter? In S. L.
Christenson, A. L. Reschly& C. Wylie (Eds.), Handbook
of research on student engagement. (pp. 97-131). New
York: Springer
Fredricks, J. A., Blumenfeld, P. C., & Alison, H. P.
(2004). School engagement: Potential of the concept,
state of the evidence. Review of Educational Research,
74(1), 59-109. doi: 10.2307/3516061
Hayes, J.R., & Flower, L.S. (1986). Writing research and
the writer. American Psychologist, 41, 1106-1113.