[Air-l] Practical bon log application advice

[Tama Leaver]

In my experience, Wordpress is great for blogs when a single student
is using them (and either wordpress.com or James Farmer's edublogs.org
both offer great, easy-to-use and freely hosted versions of Wordpress
Mu which anyone can sign up to and be blogging in five minutes) but
Blogger is actually easier to set up for course or tutorial blogs (ie
those blogs where a number of students or your entire course are
blogging in one place, in one blog -- or even one bon log! ;)

If you do prefer to run them on your university's servers rather than
a service hosted elsewhere, blogger can be set up this way (although
the interface and brain of the service remains on the google servers
while your actual blog itself is on the uni server) or Wordpress Mu
(http://mu.wordpress.org/) could be installed by one person and then
used as the portal through which students cna set up blogs without
actually going through installation themselves.

Cheers,
Tama
-- 
Dr Tama Leaver
Associate Lecturer (Higher Education Development)
Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (M400)
University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009 Australia
Ph: (+61 8) 6488 1502
Fax: (+61 8) 6488 1156

www: http://www.catl.uwa.edu.au
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On 10/19/06, Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu> wrote:
> I just had my students set up on wordpress.com   it is free, though
> you can pay for special extras, and has what i think is the best spam
> protection around.  oh... it took them less time to set up the blog
> on their own than it too me to tell them what a blog was...  so that
> was funny....  i said 15 minutes... 2 minutes later they are staring
> at me...
> On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Christopher J. Richter wrote:
>
> > My experience with blogs is limited to reading, and occasionally
> > posting comments to other peoples.  But during January I will be co-
> > teaching a travel-study course  We would like one of the
> > assignments to be a travel blog for the entire class.
> >
> > We will probably be able to get server space on a university
> > computer.  But I need advice on possible software/applications.  At
> > a minimum we want our students to be able to input/upload text and
> > images (video would be nice, too).  The interface needs to be
> > relatively simple, as we will sometimes be working from cybercafés,
> > with limited time to fuss with things.  And, of course, cost is a
> > factor.  Any suggestions?
> >
> > Feel free to offer advice either on or off list.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Chris
> >
> > Christopher J. Richter
> > Assoc. Prof. & Chair, Communication Studies
> > Hollins University
> > P.O. Box 9652
> > Roanoke VA, 24020
> > Tel. 5403626358
> > Fax 5403626286
> > e-mail crichter at hollins.edu
> > web www.hollins.edu
> >
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