Resources and Examples of the Use Blogs in Education

 

Articles on "Using Blogs in Education"

• Bookmarking the world: Weblog applications in education
• Educational Applications of Weblogs
• Education Weblogs - Techlearning online magazine
• You Blog, We Blog: How Teacher-Librarians Can Use Weblogs to Build Communication and Research Skills
• The Subtle Knife: Blog*Diss: Blogs in the Classroom
• Weblogs in and around the Classroom
• Using Weblogs in the Writing Classroom (presentation, Sarah Lohnes, Middlebury)
• Thoughts about weblogs in education
• Weblog Workshop - possible applications

Courses using Blogs

Collections of Examples

• EdBlogger Praxis
• Professors who blog
• Rice University Course blogs and student research blogs

Specific Examples

• EDTEC 670 - Exploratory Learning through Simulation and Games (Bernie Dodge, SDSU)
• Indisciplinary Education (Lloyd Nebres at UC Berkeley)
• CollegeTeacher.org, Debby Kilburn
• Rhetoric, Sarah Blackmon, Perdue
• Computer Science 302, Washington State University
• Research Methods 2127
• Music 1 - Intro to Music, Dan Mitchell, de anza college
• Learning About Website Usability - Webquest blog (Jeremy Hiebert, Bridges.com)
• Math 16b - Applied Calculus at Berkeley
• IDD Class blogs (Pattie Hastings, Design class)

 

Other Specific Uses of Blogs in Education

• Chandler-Gilbert College ePortfolio system based on blog technology
• Displaying RSS feeds in WebCT (Brian Lamb, UBC)
• Publishing and Using Learning Objects via RSS (or "RSS - What's the Fuss?"); wiki site