[WEB4LIB] RE: Use of Blogs in Instruction? | Student-Recommended Web

Thomas Bennett bennetttm at appstate.edu
Wed Aug 11 08:49:59 EDT 2004


I've just recently installed the COREBlog Product on our Zope WEB server
which uses forms to add data and configure the WEB blog.  We use this as
our new News page.:

http://www.library.appstate.edu/blog/news/

  I also have a test page at: 

http://www.library.appstate.edu/webmaster/coreblogtest/

The test page shows more options that are available with this Product
including the built in search option and comments turned on.  The
Product is from http://coreblog.org/ .  By the way, Product has a
special meaning in Zope.  Products, for the most part, are essentially
addons to implement a new service, add special features, or enhance the
WEB tool.
     

Thomas


PS:Below is an excerpt of a recent email from one of our librarians
announcing a WEB cast on blogs:




If you are interested in attending a web cast on blogs (web-logs) in
higher education,...The live session will be held October 5, 2004 at
1:00pm 

 A full description is at:

https://www.academicimpressions.com/web_conferences/weblogs.htm


P.S. If you are interested, here are some examples of blogs in
library-land and higher ed:
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/

http://www.librarystuff.net/2004/08/answerbag.html

http://www.weblogg-ed.com/

And in case you want to start a blog (for your team, for example) there
is an easy to use blog-product already in place on the library’s
web-server. Our news page (http://www.library.appstate.edu/blog/news/)
runs with that product.




On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 00:49, D.H. Mattison wrote:
> August 10, 2004
> 
> Use of blogs in higher education is a very big field. A couple of sites that
> I visit from time to time and recommend for resource mining are:
> 
> Weblogg-ed: Using Weblogs and RSS in Education (http://www.weblogg-ed.com/).
> Clicking the Educator Weblogs link will take you to a long list by name of
> educators who use or maintain blogs.
> 
> EBN: Educational Bloggers Network (http://www.ebn.weblogger.com/)
> 
> Weblogs At Harvard Law (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/), co-edited by Dave
> Winer (Mr. RSS 2.0 and other distinctions) and Donna Wentworth, is also a
> fascinating glimpse into the integration of blogging into the teaching of
> law (at least that's what I think is supposed to be happening).
> 
> Since I like to think wikis offer an effective alternative in some
> educational situations to the rather rigid blog format, take a look at
> http://edtech.coedit.net/EducationalWikiList for some ideas, as well as this
> refereed article on wikis and their applicability to distance education
> (http://www.irrodl.org/content/v5.1/technote_xxvii.html).
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> David Mattison
> Victoria, BC, Canada
> dmattison at shaw.ca
> The Ten Thousand Year Blog http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress
> Tiki Wiki Hut http://www.davidmattison.ca/tiki
> 
> 




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