Narrative Communities: Co-Authored Weblogs as a Space for Reflective Community and Critical Engagement Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:2391683, abstract = {This paper presents the preliminary results of a study in which multi-authored weblogs replaced traditional individual journals in a social foundations short course for pre-service teachers. Drawing learning communities research, the course's curriculum relied on literature circles and online collaborative blogs to create a space where critical issues were discussed in meaningful, open ways. This paper offers the ideology, methodology, and results of replacing traditional reflective journals with weblog communities. It looks at two different weblog community structures, one strictly limited to course conversation and one which included both personal blogs and joint course blogs. Highlighting both the advantages and disadvantages of such communities, it argues that there are substantial benefits to using online interactive technologies such as this to re-vision reflective journals as collaborative and critical narrative spaces.}, address = {Orlando, Florida, USA}, author = {Pyne, Kimberly}, booktitle = {Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2006}, citeulike-article-id = {2391683}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://go.editlib.org/p/22476}, editor = {Crawford, Caroline and Willis, Dee A. and Carlsen, Roger and Gibson, Ian and Mcferrin, Karen and Price, Jerry and Weber, Roberta}, keywords = {blogging, community, engagement, narrative, reflection, spaces, weblogs}, month = {March}, pages = {2639--2642}, posted-at = {2008-02-18 00:09:19}, priority = {2}, publisher = {AACE}, title = {Narrative Communities: Co-Authored Weblogs as a Space for Reflective Community and Critical Engagement}, url = {http://go.editlib.org/p/22476}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2391683 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2391683 N2 - This paper presents the preliminary results of a study in which multi-authored weblogs replaced traditional individual journals in a social foundations short course for pre-service teachers. Drawing learning communities research, the course’s curriculum relied on literature circles and online collaborative blogs to create a space where critical issues were discussed in meaningful, open ways. This paper offers the ideology, methodology, and results of replacing traditional reflective journals with weblog communities. It looks at two different weblog community structures, one strictly limited to course conversation and one which included both personal blogs and joint course blogs. Highlighting both the advantages and disadvantages of such communities, it argues that there are substantial benefits to using online interactive technologies such as this to re-vision reflective journals as collaborative and critical narrative spaces. AD - Orlando, Florida, USA EP - 2642 TI - Narrative Communities: Co-Authored Weblogs as a Space for Reflective Community and Critical Engagement PB - AACE T2 - Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2006 SP - 2639 KW - blogging KW - community KW - engagement KW - narrative KW - reflection KW - spaces KW - weblogs AU - Pyne, Kimberly A2 - Crawford, Caroline A2 - Willis, Dee A2 - Carlsen, Roger A2 - Gibson, Ian A2 - Mcferrin, Karen A2 - Price, Jerry A2 - Weber, Roberta PY - 2006/March// UR - http://go.editlib.org/p/22476 ER -