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A Research-Supported Approach to Using Weblogs as a Sustainable Educational Innovation in an Australian Post-Primary School

It has proven difficult to embed sustainable use of new educational technologies is schools. This paper reports on an exception to this, where research is used to support effective use by teachers and students of one such new technology, weblogs. With the teacher as a prime decision-maker supported and evaluated by Action Research methodologies, the implementation of weblogs has provided learning valued by students and teachers. This paper reports on the process undertaken within the History curriculum in a school, which draws on the insights provided through the wider educational technologies research community, and doing so provides a model for achieving sustainable and scalable use of educational technologies within school environments. This paper supports the importance of the practical context when considering the educational merit of new technologies if valued use in schools is to be achieved.