Archive for the ‘blogs’ Category
Blogs
Blogs – what are they
- Online diary style website
- Quick and easy web publishing
- Offer instant communication
- Regularly updated
- Require little technical knowledge
- A social / networking activity
- Links to other online resources
- Try the Guide to Using Blogs in Economics
Blogs in Plain English
… or sample some blog related links from Delicious.
Blogs – potential uses – teaching and learning
- Replacing standard class web pages
- Professor-written blogs which cover interesting developments that relate to the theme of the course
- Organization of in-class discussion
- Organization of intensive seminars where students have to provide weekly summaries of the readings
- Requiring students to write their own blogs as part of their grade
From Henry Farrell contributor at Crooked Timber
Blogs – more potential uses
- Writing up as you go along
- Floating new or embryonic ideas
- Dissemination of research results
- Disseminate news and service updates
- Take advantage of the “invisible college” of fellow academics
- Engaging with the public to find out what they want
- Sidestepping the mainstream media for publicity
- Great potential for reflection See Julie Hughes 2006 ALT-C paper
Exercise
- Register for an account at http://wordpress.com/
- Add a new blog post http://support.wordpress.com/posts/
- Write a few lines on how you could use blogs
- On the right hand side of the Edit Post screen, add the tag alissweb2
- Publish your post
Advanced
Chat with one of your neighbours, find out the web address of their blog and leave a comment on their blog post or on this blog at http://alissweb2.wordpress.com
Note
All of the other exercises have an optional blog related element – you can start to add to your blog by following the rest of the exercises
