Blogs

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Blogs

Living, Learning, Cyberspace: A Program-Wide Blogging Initiative for Virginia Tech's Honors Residential College

February 15, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting

How can the intimate, engaged experience of small-group learning be a template for a large research university? Virginia Tech's answer: a blogging platform that enables students and professors…

Exposing Emerging Pedagogies: Can Web 2.0 Tools Influence Teaching and Learning? (Research-Based)

February 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

Institutions of all types are experimenting with blogs and wikis in various academic environments. Years ago, Penn State made a strategic decision to implement institutional blogging and wiki platf…

Using WordPress MU to Facilitate Technology Integration (Pilot Program/Emerging Technology)

February 16, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

This presentation we will demonstrate the use of WordPress MU to facilitate technology integration within a college of education. WordPress was used at the institutional level to archive FAQs, prov…

As Learners Move into the Open: Obstacles to Overcome, Strategies for Success, and Potential for Participatory Learning (Research-Based)

February 16, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011

This presentation will highlight results from two research studies conducted between 2008 and 2010 on social media use for learning. Participants were undergraduate and graduate students in a Schoo…

Research on Learner Self-Engagement in a Web 2.0 World: "We Used It How We Wanted To"

October 13, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

Learners benefit from blogs and wikis when their use is scaffolded by the instructor and/or course requirements. But if these prompts are missing or poorly designed, will learners self-motivate usi…

Blogging About Educational Technology: A Discussion for Current and Prospective Bloggers

October 15, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference

Are you a blogger? Thinking about starting a professional blog? This discussion session will bring together current and prospective bloggers (in academia and companies) to discuss the pros, cons, p…

BGSU on WordPress MU: A One-Stop Campus Shop for Blogs, Database-Driven Websites, and Catalogs

March 17, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2010

Many campuses have an unmet need for multiple easy-to-administer, searchable, web-accessible databases for departments, research centers, and other academic users. BGSU uses WordPress MU, the free …

Blogging in the Classroom: Bane or Blessing?

March 10, 2010 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2010

This panel session will feature an interactive discussion of how to use blogs to enhance student learning. Students, faculty, and an instructional technology specialist panelist will discuss their …

Not Blogging in WordPress: Innovative Faculty Use of WordPress MU for Teaching and Scholarship (Learning Technology)

January 20, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010

Faculty members and educational technologists have great ideas about new ways to enhance teaching and learning with technology. However, sometimes the available tools make these innovative ideas aw…

Rebooting the Past, Uploading the Future: Web 2.0 and the Study of History Through a Living Learning Community (Learning Technology)

January 19, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010

In this case study, the instructor, the undergraduate teaching assistant, and a library administrator will assess how new media and Web 2.0 technologies transform project-based learning within a un…