A Study on the Usage of Teaching Blog of Elementary School

• Main Authors: Pei-chi Hsu, 徐珮淇
• Other Authors: Mei-Chun Yin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78038623273803163832

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 教育學系課程與教學碩士班 === 99 === The main purpose of this study was to explore the blog using attitude and behavior of elementary school teachers with different backgrounds who work in Tainan County. In this study, the blog using attitude included the cognition, enjoyment, confidence and usefulness toward teaching blog. Meanwhile, the blog using behavior included the skills’ improving, curriculum management and teaching assistance, teacher-parent-student communication, teachers’ professional development and reflection. The researcher tried to point out the differences and relationship within and between the blog using attitude and behavior first. Then, the researcher indicated out the limitations and difficulties for elementary school teachers to use teaching blog. The method of collecting data used by the study was a questionnaire survey. The subjects of this study were 290 elementary school teachers in Tainan County who had used teaching blogs or are using teaching blogs now. All data was analyzed by SPSS 10.0. The analyzing methods included descriptive statistics (e.g. frequency distribution, percentage and standard deviation), one-way ANOVA and Pearson product-moment correlation. The findings of the study were as follows: 1. The usage of blog of Tainan elementary school teachers is not so good as we expected. 2. The blog using attitude of teachers in Tainan County is positive. 3. The frequency of blog using behavior of teachers in Tainan County is middle, but there is a decreasing in “teachers’ professional development and reflection”. 4. There are significant differences in the part of blog using attitude of elementary school teachers in Tainan County who have different gender, iii work in schools of different sizes and have different duties. 5. There are significant differences in the part of blog using behavior of elementary school teachers in Tainan County who have different gender, work in schools of different sizes and have different duties. 6. A positive correlation between the blog using attitude and behavior of elementary school teachers in Taiwan County is presented. 7. The limitations and difficulties for Tainan elementary school teachers to use teaching blogs are that the time isn’t enough, the speed of data upload is too slow and the space for saving data is too small. Finally, based on the results of the study, some suggestions were given to education administration, schools, teachers and researchers who intended to conduct related researches.