What is some research done on blogging in the classroom?

A little bit of research for blogging in The classroom

Penrod, Diane.  Using Blogs to Enhance Literacy: The Next Powerful Step in 21st Century learning.  Rowman & Littlefield Education. Layham, Maryland. 2007  

Diane Penrod's book Using Blogs to Enhance Literacy is an excellent resource for teachers to understand the rationale for using blogs in English classrooms and how it can benefit their students.  Penrod explains what blogs are, the bloggers themselves and what makes a quality blog.  She goes over how blogs can greatly help literacy in children.  She explains that blogging can help students learn to enjoy writing and have what she explains as an autotelic experience.  She talks about blog extremely positively and treats them as if there are no real drawbacks to blogs, or that some students will not experience benefits.  This is not exactly true and in fact my next source explains how some students have problems with engaging in blogging the way they are intended.  

Amaro-Jimenez, Carla, Holly Hungerford-Kresser, Joy Wiggins.  "Learning From Our Mistakes: What Matters When Incorporating Blogging in the Content Area Literacy Classroom." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 326-334.  January 2012. 

This source explains how blogging can be less beneficial in a classroom especially because of poorly constructed uses of blogging.  From this the professors learned that students needed better direction of the class related blogging.  They could take some advice from middle school teachers who realize that students need ample time and direction for assignments, because other wise they will not get done or be done poorly. That is what these professors learned from using blogs in their classroom.  But they also feel very positively about using blogs in the classroom.  

Bowers-Campbell, Joy.  "Take it out of Class: Exploring Virtual Literature Circles."  Journal of Adolescent & Adult literacy, 557-566. May 2011

 This source like the others discusses using blogs as a way to enhance classroom discussions especially about literacy.  It addresses how using it as a source for classroom discussions allows students to make literary connections like Text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world.  Also by using it for groups the people using a specific blog promote "Group Harmony," which is what a good discussion does, because it doesn't cut people down for what they are saying, instead it tries to further the discussion and make good evaluations of the text and.  

Other sources of Blogging for English classes:

Trammell, Kaye D. Richard E. Ferdig "Pedagogical Implications of Blogging."  Academic Exhange. 60-64. Winter 2004

Weiler, Greg. "Using Weblogs In the Classroom." The English Journal. Vol. 92 no. 5. 73-75.  May 2003

Hunt, Tiffany J. Bud Hunt.  "Linkin' (B)Logs: A New Literacy of Hyperlinks." The English Journal. Vol. 97 no. 1. 105-108. Sept. 2007

Gillepsie Joanne S. "Getting Inside S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders." The English Journal. Vol. 95 no. 3. 44-48. January 2006.