This article made me think why applications could I use blogging for as an educator? I thought of several uses that I wanted to share. First I would need to decide if I had seperate blogs for each subject area, i.e computers versus account and business. I think with my current work load more than one would not be feasible.
Then I thought how would I draw students in, I decided there must be a way with the site I am building for my project to incorporate a blog in there. even if it is just a link to this blog or another blog site. I could post an announcement on the webpage when there is something new available and provide the link.
Then the third question I thought about and am still thinking about is content. Do I want this to be directly related to academics, like this is my post about how to write a paper or do citations? Or do I use it more to share announcements and happenings, or the third which I am leaning toward is to write blogs about current events that would tie into what we are studying and then vary the content for the different class types.
That is what I am thinking about this sunny fall Friday before my other ALOP class.
In case you are stuck in a windowless cube today
