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"So here's something neat that I figured out how to do on Jim's DS106 class (soon to be available on my own course site). As you may know, both sites are syndicating in feeds from students' blogs using the amazing FeedWordPress plugin. We use this plugin all over UMW Blogs to allow faculty to manage course "mother" blogs into which students' blogs are fed."

"Blogging. For many, the term evokes thoughts of cringe-worthy diary-esque posts by angry teenagers, or bland breakfast tweets by bored acquaintances. But in many fields, including the sciences, law and librarianship, blogging has become vital to the advancement of scholarship."

"But how do we get students to realize what they themselves value? How do we get students to think about their blogging as something other than work for a grade?"

Great post by Sue Waters on how to scaffold students into blogging.

Blogging can be quite a process. First you may have to do some research, then put your thoughts together, and of course add any necessary screenshots and images. Let's not forget the optimization part (SEO, keywords, etc) and sharing your content on the Web so that others will read it and hopefully share it. With all of these steps involved, blogging can be quite time-consuming and many bloggers get burnt out rather quickly doing these things on a daily basis.

Why conferences and blogging are both good for academics.

Researcher explains why it important for researchers to blog.

Fast social media versus slower ones: twitter vs blogs. Siemens stirs it up with his post putting relative value on blogging and Twitter.

First of 2 blog posts on plagiarism vs iterative innovation in the gaming industry. Has some good discussion on the ethics and principles of re-using others work and the implications for creativity and innovation. Other post at http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AndySchatz/20110815/8198/Fishing_the_iOS_Clone_market_and_PatentCopyright.php

Downes short piece on using blogs in education.

List of links to academic blogging how-to's particularly with multiple authors.

"Blogs are one of the oldest components of the web 2.0 toolkit, but their strengths as an instructional tool are still being discovered."

Slashdot forum on Googles announcement that they will redirect to country specific domains for a blog which has been censored somewhere. So blogspot.com may become blogspot.com.nz if something bloccked here.

John St. Clair's blog at Uni Mary Washington. Lots of good stuff and it also demos how UMW are using Wordpress as a learning environment for more than just blog posts.

"David gave a presentation on the current features and future directions of BIM. Without a doubt, this add on to Moodle will greatly assist teachers trying to use blogs with large cohorts of students..."

team launching a collaborative story (starting on Thursday 8 September) written in real time with readers following the story as it moves from blog to blog.

Great guide put together from a series of blog posts. Talks about various techniques for blogging, podcasting, photo work, etc and takes a no-nonsense view of learning these tools and taking responsibility for yourself when using technology. Most things are valid outside of journalism so this is useful for all.

Diagram describing using blogs to create portfolios of work.

Document for NZ schools on considerations for using blog and other web2.0 tools with students.

How to get your blog / tweet read. We should know this but a useful summary.