"You have to know the past to (blog) the present:" Using an Educational Blog to Engage Students in U.S. History

Computers in the Schools

Volumn 29, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 118-134

  Manfra, Meghan McGlinn ^a   Lee, John K ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"doing history"; authentic intellectual work; culturally relevant pedagogy; educational weblogs (blogs); history education; social studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860167347     PISSN: 07380569     EISSN: 15287033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07380569.2012.656543     Document Type: Article

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