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Create a Blog using Blogger.pdf
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Inventing the University one Word at a Time
University of Texas at Arlington English course blog that includes the syllabus, handouts, discussion schedule, assignments, and more. The instructor's vita is also available.
Wittenberg University Travel Abroad: Life Science and Electromagnetic Telecommunications
A blog that was used for a student trip across England and Scotland tracing the origin and development of life science and electromagnetic telecommunications. This blog includes links to faculty and student blogs in which they post photos and comments about what they're seeing and learning.
The Blue Light
A blog that the Valparaiso University Writing Center is using to assist students with writing, bibliographies, copyright, plagerism, and more. It offers face-to-face, online or instant messaging consultation options.
Plant Diversity of the IU South Bend Campus
An example of how IU South Bend students and faculty are using a weblog to document the diversity of plant life on campus.
Podcasts for Geology (Warren Huff)
Professor Huff is using a UC blog to post podcasts of his lectures. Several other UC faculty members have used UC blogs to post podcasts of their lectures until Blackboard provided a way to link podcasts. Posting lecture podcasts seems to be very popular with students. Other UC blogs are on UCFileSpace at this address:
http://homepages.uc.edu/weblog/ . Not many are populated. The active blogs mainly appear to have used them to post podcasts through the 2006-2007 academic year.
The Online Instructor
Texas Women's University Office of Lifelong Learning blog for distance learning faculty. "This blog is one way to send brief information about issues related to teaching and learning in the online environment. We will post tips, breaking news about online issues, information about free software, and announcements of interest to TWU online educators."
TWU Connection
Texas Women's University Office of Lifelong Learning blog for distance learning students. This blog posts anything that might be useful to distance education students such as announcements, registration information, scholarship opportunities, resume tips, etc.
Distance Learning Blog: A Day in the Life...
The Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Distance Learning blogs are written by 3 distance learning students per term. As the title implies, the blogs are the students thoughts, impressions, and experiences.
E-Learning Queen
"E-Learning Queen focuses on online and distributed training and education, from instructional design to e-learning and mobile solutions, with emphasis on real-world e-learning issues and applications for higher education, training, K-12, and not-for-profit." This blog includes posts about new technology and interesting interviews with distance learning instructors.
E-Learning and Distance Learning Blog
The author of this blog is a distance learning instructor. His description states "this is the spot for parking ideas, resources, and links about e-learning and distance learning based on my vantage point". It looks like the blog is mostly for himself but he is making his thoughts, ideas, and observations openly available.
Academic Blog Portal
A wiki that lists academic blogs that include the Humanities, Professions and Useful Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, and more.
Use of Blogs in Online College Classes
An entry from the online Encyclopedia of Educational Technology: A Publication of the San Diego State University Department of Educational Technology.
Why Weblogs?
Vlog example: A vlog or video blog is a blog which uses video as the primary content and is usually accompanied by supporting text and images
The Collaborative Writing Project
Students worked together on this wiki to create annotated bibliographies, dictionaries, articles, essays, and study guides.
Social Justice Movements
This wiki is the result of student group work. Each group researched one topic then all topics were posted online in the wiki. The professor intends to use the same wiki each semester, thus building a research center of information as the years go by.
Computers in Management
This is a business class at Boston College. There are no textbooks, all readings come from the wiki. Students can post their papers to have peer editing, post possible exam questions and post groups projects among other things.
College English Wiki
University of Cincinnati Second Life Learning Community (UCSLLC)
UC is exploring using wikis and Second Life for distance learning and to enhance courses in the classroom.
UCIT Podcasting Project
This wiki gives the history of podcasting at UC and provides information on how to go about creating a podcast and posting it.
Bibliographies
Chen, H. L., Cannon, D., Gabrio, J., Leifer, L., Toye, G. & Bailey, T. (2005).
Gilbert, S., & Ehrmann, S. (2006). Exploration guide: Educational uses of blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, etc. Retrieved May 1, 2007, from
http://www.tltgroup.org/blogs.htm
Wenmoth, D. Blog usage, statistics, and trends. (2007).
Derek's Blog: Musings on the use and impact of technology in education, and the future of education, in general. Retrieved October 29, 2007,
http://blog.core-ed.net/derek/blogs/
Yan, J. Social technology as a new medium in the classroom. The New England Journal of Higher Education. 2008, Winter, 27-30.
WikiMatrix
PB Wiki
If you're interested in more information about creating blogs or wikis on UCFileSpace, contact Don Rainwater at Don.Rainwater@uc.edu.
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