Call for Insight > Uses for Weblogs
Dear Reader,
How many uses for a weblog can you think of? I am particularly interested in ideas for using blogs in higher ed so I may create a blogging resource on this site. Please share your thoughts in the comments section below!
Here’s what I’ve gathered so far . . .
THINGS TO DO WITH A WEBLOG
- educational applications
- instruction
- share materials
- facilitate discussions
- class publication
- share lesson plans (professional development)
- personal site for creative writing / art / etc.
- creative commons licensed
- project collaboration
- ~ source
- Communicating with project stakeholders
- Replacing paper
- Building issue logs
- Capturing information snippets
- Publicizing the project progress
- Reducing email overload
- Capturing requirements
- Circulating screenshots
- Keeping team members up-to-date
- Provide an automatic audit trail
- ~ source
- eportfolio
- projects
- cv
- video cv
- grass roots journalism
- instant / real time event coverage / “live blogging”
- topical commentary
- thematic personal expertise commentary / showcase
- keep working on course projects into the future
- publish thinking in progress (as in a journal)
- blog-based conversation in comment threads
- interact with visitors
- solicit expert insight
- collect “assignments”, questions to pursue
- instruction
- advantages
- control
- content
- can be password protected
- content
- aggregation
- control
- sources
- ~ http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~natt/newmedia/bloguses.html
- ~ http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/An_Introduction_to_Weblogs/Blog_Uses
- ~ http://edublogs.org/10-ways-to-use-your-edublog-to-teach/
- ~ http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/help/2011/02/22/7-uses-for-blogs-in-higher-education/
- ~ http://blendedlearning.wikispaces.com/Getting+Started+with+Blogging+in+Education
- ~ http://www.infosential.com/archives/2005/01/10_ways_to_use_blogs_for_.php
- ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators
