Character Journaling through Social Networks: Exemplifying Tenets of the New Literacy Studies

John Wesley White; Holly Hungerford-Kresser

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 57, No. 8 (May 2014) pp. 642–654

Countering reactionary attempts to ban social media from schools is a strong research based rationale for bringing social media into the literacy classroom. When used as a medium to explore literature--or more specifically for interactive character...

Topics: Literacy, Social Studies

Learning from Our Mistakes: What Matters When Incorporating Blogging in the Content Area Literacy Classroom

Holly Hungerford-Kresser; Joy Wiggins; Carla Amaro-Jimenez

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 55, No. 4 (2012) pp. 326–335

This manuscript explores the inclusion of blogging as a pedagogical tool with preservice secondary teachers from a variety of content areas. The authors focus on data collected over two and a half years with preservice teachers in the content...