{"id":171,"date":"2006-04-05T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T17:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/04\/05\/blogging-the-classroom-a-tea-party\/"},"modified":"2006-04-05T13:01:18","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T17:01:18","slug":"blogging-the-classroom-a-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/04\/05\/blogging-the-classroom-a-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging the Classroom – A Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tea<\/a>Yesterday we held another of our Colleague Tea events<\/a>, this one entitled “Blogs at UVM<\/em>“. It was a cozy group, with only about five or six people attending, but it was a lively and enlightening discussion. I think everyone left with some ideas about how they could use this tool in their courses. Here are a few of the resources we looked at, along with some of the places and ideas we discussed.<\/p>\n


\nAt the beginning, we gave out a resources sheet with the blog.uvm.edu<\/a> url on it and descriptions of the tools that could be found there, such as the Get a Blog!<\/a> link, the Blogroll, and the “help<\/a>” blog. This handout also had URL’s for the Doctor Is In program<\/a>, and the CTL Events<\/a> calendar. We also had a “Blogging Lingo<\/a>” (pdf) handout, definitions of common terms.
\nWe started out with introductions, and discovered almost immediately that one of our participants was already blogging<\/a>! She was excited to find out that she could set up a blog at UVM, in addition to using an external service – which she is currently doing with her Women’s Bioethics Blog.
\nIn after looking at that blog, we went to the UVM Blogroll and took a look at a few blogs currently in use in the classroom. The blogs of Paul Martin<\/a>‘s canadian<\/a> literature<\/a> courses<\/a> were examples we looked at, as were Charlie Rathbone<\/a>‘s education course<\/a> blogs<\/a>.
\nAfter that, we briefly looked at the editing and posting interface, and how easy it is to upload and post a picture. Throughout all of this, we were pausing to talk about the differences between using this tool as opposed to others such as WebCT or regular web\/”zoo” space. Along the way we also discussed various details of using a blog, such as being able to save posts in unpublished “draft” form. We touched on ideas such as publishing multiple versions of syllabii, re-using a blog space, as well as ideas for handling discussion and dealing with comment spam<\/a>. As we wrapped up, it seemed that a few folks might really have more need of something like WebCT<\/a>, for it’s structure and tools such as quizzes and threaded discussion.
\nToward the end, we looked at Technorati, and Google as ways of finding<\/a> blogs<\/a> of specific<\/a> interest<\/a>.
\nWe also talked a little about<\/a> feed readers<\/a>.
\nAll in all, it was a lot of fun. And the cookies were tasty!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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