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WeB logs (online journals) may be syndicated through an RSS feed and many can also receive comments from readers. More advanced blog programs, content management systems, can construct entire websites.
Tools:
Resources:
How might you use Blogs in Scholarship?
How might you use Blogs in Teaching?
How might your students use Blogs in their lives?
Tools:
- Blogger (http://www.blogger.com/start)
- Uniblogs (http://uniblogs.org/)—an instance of WordPress blogging software
- LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com/)
- Drupal (http://drupal.org/)—content management system
- Expression Engine (http://www.pmachine.com/ee/)—content management system
- Word Press (http://wordpress.org/)—open source content management system
Resources:
- Instructional Blogging on Campus: Identifying Best Practices (http://www.campus-technology.com/news_article.asp?id=11311&typeid=155)
- The Blogging/Scholarship/Media Interplay (http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1657)
- Educational Blogging (http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0450.asp?bhcp=1.)
- Blogging as a Course Management Tool (http://technologysource.org/article/blogging_as_a_course_management_tool/)
How might you use Blogs in Scholarship?
- Publish “in-process” entries about your research and/or teaching
- Get feedback from others interested in your topic as a form of peer “review”
How might you use Blogs in Teaching?
- Have students keep an electronic version of the regular course journal
- Require students to read and respond to one anothers’ blogs
How might your students use Blogs in their lives?
- Publish “in-process” projects (academic, civic, professional and/or personal)
- Have an ongoing family or group newsletter (multiple authors)
