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

[Thomas Bennett]

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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