Reading and writing about literature on the Internet. Two innovative experiences with blogs in higher education

What is it about?

This paper describes two innovative experiences with ICT in teacher training by means of the development of two blogs about children’s and young adults’ literature. The study of both activities shows the usefulness of blogs in higher education and their contribution to the linguistic and literary training of future teachers. The results show that the creation of a literature blog enhances communicative skills in a digital environment, enlarges the students’ literary competence, improves the future teachers’ didactic training, increases the participants’ motivation and encourages independent learning and shared knowledge building by means of peer interaction.

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Why is it important?

Blogs are a very useful resource in the educational field that can be used for many purposes. With the aim to contribute to the scientific research on educational uses of blogs, this paper presents two innovative experiences carried out in higher education, in the area of literary education. The analysis of the results reveals some of the weaknessess and strengths of this Web 2.0 resource for literary education, and can be transferred to other experiences in higher education.