Blogs: Uses in an Educational Setting

Friday, September 16, 2005
Noon - 1pm

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Greg Downey, Professor in Journalism and Mass Communication

Professor Downey will discuss using the "Blogger" weblog service (now owned by Google) in a large, undergraduate, writing-intensive journalism class. Blogger is a free, automated tool for publishing a series of thoughts to a web site. The blog allows Downey to post announcements and current news
items from the web, to foster discussions and exam reviews among the students, and for guests from off-campus to participate in the course. If time permits, he will also discuss using blogs in a different context, a
small graduate seminar class.

Visit Greg's website for links to his blogs.

John Thomson, Jr., Project Assistant for DoIT Academic Technology and PhD Student in Journalism and Mass Communication

Where can I go to set up a blog, and how do I do it? What features should I look for?
The answers to these questions will be answered, as a number of free blog services and their features are examined along with some open-source, server-installable blog software packages. This will lead to a discussion of how the feature and software selection can affect the goals or community dynamic of a class blog.

Download John's powerpoint.

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