Academic Blog Articles and Examples

Selected Academic Blog Experiments

• RIT Blogs
  • Liz Lawley's Web Design and Introduction to Multimedia
  • Elouise Oyzon's Human Factors
  • Cathy Beaton's Talking Stick (for Ethics classes)
  • Learning Community Multimedians Blog
  • Brian Koberlein's Personal Blog, University Physics I and University Physics II
  • Steve Jacobs' History of Games (example student blog: C. Costino)
  • Jay Bibby's gaming blog
  • Andy Phelps' MT-powered main site and Muppets site
• USC Interactive Media Program - the departmental webpage is based on movable type software
• Lakoff blog - this is an attempt to document a particular class so that non-students can attend and engage with the discussions. All class notes are turned out for the public rather than kept under password.
• Pomona - Marxism and Cultural Studies, courseware blog and wiki
• UMCP - Postmodern Literature
• UThink: Blogs at the University of Minnesota
• Photoblogs
• PhD weblogs - this is a site that collect blogs by people who are working on their PhDs so that they can know about what other PhDs are going through
• Educational Bloggers' Network

Events and Presentations

• Nercom - Social Software That Builds and Supports Communities of Practice
• Weblogs, Wikis, RSS, Oh My! - an introduction to social software in education (PDF version of a PPT file)
• MANE IT Network - workshops on social software in education

General Discussions and Tools

• New Tools for Back-to-School: Blogs, Swarms, Wikis and Games
• Uses for Social Software in Education
• We-Learning: Social Software and E-Learning - Part 1 and Part 2
• Creating a Photo Album with Movable Type

Weblog Articles and Sites

• Alex Halavais' draft of a chapter on blogs and education
• Weblogs in Education: Bringing the World to the Liberal Arts Classroom by Sarah Lohnes
• Remediation, Genre, and Motivation: Key Concepts for Teaching with Weblogs (Kevin Brooks, Cindy Nichols, and Sybil Priebe, North Dakota State Uni versity)
• Moving to the Public: Weblogs in the Writing Classroom (Charles Lowe, Purdue University, and Terra Williams, Arizona State University)- eduBlogs - lists of schools running experiments with blogging and lots of papers on the topic
• Blogs in Education
• Matrix of Blogs in education
• Weblogg-ed - using weblogs and rss in education
• Weblogs in Education - interview with Will Richardson of Weblogg-ed
• Alex Halvais' Blog Research Entries
• References on blogging (none are directly concerning academia)