{"id":133,"date":"2006-08-20T01:05:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T07:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2018-06-17T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T23:42:00","slug":"blogging-and-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Blogging and academia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a nice chance earlier this week to give a brief presentation to the latest round of faculty and staff taking the UVM <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~ctl\">Center for Teaching and Learning<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Blogging Your Course&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~ctl\/?Page=services\/workshops\/index.php&amp;SM=m_services.html\">workshop<\/a>. One of the main things I always try to get across is that if the participants are only thinking about using blogs for their course(s) they&#8217;re missing out on what i think are the biggest effects blogs can have on their academic lives, something Fred Stutzman summed up really well this past week in a post called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chimprawk.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/blogging-academias-digital-divide.html\">Blogging: Academia&#8217;s Digital DIvide<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>I talked on Wednesday about the importance of reading blogs, <a href=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/archives\/2005\/05\/followup_to_my.html\">something I&#8217;ve talked about before<\/a> when <a href=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/archives\/2006\/07\/the_text_in_the.html\">speaking to new bloggers<\/a> at UVM, and we also got everyone started using RSS readers\u00c2\u00a0so that they could understand how feeds work and see some of the great potential of RSS.<\/p>\n<p>Starting to read blogs and creating your own personal\/professional blog, to me, will have a far greater impact on one&#8217;s daily academic life than creating course blogs. Blogs are a great teaching tool and these days I can&#8217;t really envision myself teaching without a blog for each class, but if I had to choose one or the other I&#8217;d ditch my course blogs and keep my own one running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a nice chance earlier this week to give a brief presentation to the latest round of faculty and staff taking the UVM Center for Teaching and Learning&#8216;s &#8220;Blogging Your Course&#8221; workshop. One of the main things I always try to get across is that if the participants are only thinking about using blogs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practices","category-blogging-at-uvm","category-teaching-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}