Jennifer Kim, Undergraduate Duke Student
Has taken 4 classes with blogs, all in english
3 successful, 1 not
Why blogs don’t work
Blogs fall into a black hold
Blogs are not relevant to class and have no structure
There are unrealistic expectations
How blogs can work
Get people involved, RESPOND!
There is proper incentive
Provide an easy mechanism
Showed effective uses of blogs:
Weekly blog post with [...]
James Groom, University of Mary Washington (Keynote)
2 screens: one showing the Twitter feed, and the other with his PowerPoint
Not in the field of research, in the field of recon: throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what works.
UMW Blogs: An educational publishing platform
Came about because of Wordpress MU (WFU uses this) Free software, the cost [...]
Every so often I go through and clean up my web presence a bit. I know I don’t hit every place I’m online, but I try to at least clean up the things at my domain, Facebook, and maybe LinkedIn. It had been a while since I had taken the time to look at my [...]
I gave a guest talk in a LIB100 today on blogs and wikis. Here is the accompanying presentation:
blogs and wikis
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: wikis blogs)
On the Road in the Deep South: A Collaborative Experiential Course in Social Stratification
Lynn Sutton and Susan S. Smith
Kaeley and I were able to attend the other WFU presentation, On the Road in the Deep South. Lynn covered the course & service learning and Susan covered the technology and embedded librarians.
Course
Summarized the trip through the [...]
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