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Evaluating multimodal literacies in student blogs
Author(s) -
O'Byrne Barbara,
Murrell Stacey
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/bjet.12093
Subject(s) - affordance , plural , construct (python library) , meaning (existential) , literacy , digital literacy , pedagogy , multimodality , meaning making , sociology , computer science , psychology , mathematics education , multimedia , linguistics , world wide web , human–computer interaction , philosophy , psychotherapist , programming language
This research presents ways in which high school students used the multimodal and interactive affordances of blogs to create, organize, communicate and participate on an educational blog. Their actions demonstrated how plural modes of literacy are infiltrating digital environments and reshaping literacy and learning. Multimodal blogging practices of participants broaden the discourse about educational blogs to include an understanding of blogs as media‐rich platforms in which learners operate with plural modes of literacy to construct meaning, communicate and participate.