{"id":45,"date":"2005-05-17T12:34:51","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T12:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:43","slug":"follow-up-to-my-blogging-talk-earlier-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up to my blogging talk earlier today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nEarlier today, I had a great chance to talk with a number of faculty here getting started on blogging. They’re part of a terrific week-long workshop being run by the Center for Teaching and Learning<\/a> here at UVM<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nI talked a bit about how I’ve been using blogs in my courses, particularly English 086<\/a> and 180<\/a> and also about some of the sites I think are great models of what can be done. I focused especially on Miriam Jones’ fab blog scribblingwoman<\/a> to show what one might do for their own personal blog. Her course blogs like this one<\/a> are also great examples of what can be done with blogs in teaching.\n<\/p>\n

\nI also told them today about how RSS feeds and newsreaders such as NetNewsWire Lite<\/a> (scroll down that page to find the link to the free Lite version of NetNewsWire) and Newsfire<\/a> could also be a great tool for students keeping up on blog postings and also for the faculty themselves to monitor what’s going on in the blogosphere.\n<\/p>\n

\nFor me, reading and writing blogs are indelibly connected and I hope the faculty to whom I spoke are able to take some time to see what they can find in terms of blogs connected to their own interests and subject areas.\n<\/p>\n

\nA few other great sources of information that I’ll recommend to them (and you) here are:\n<\/p>\n