Academic Blogging. How? Why? What?

Academic bloggingHow? Why? What?

Lorna Walker and Chris Rowell#RCTOTT

Why academics should blog Blogs we like ‘Totallyrewired’ – a year of Blogging! Things to think about before you blog Useful links

Agenda

To develop your online presence To be part of the conversation about your

area of interest To help develop your thinking and get

feedback on ideas pre-publication

Why academics should blog

Pat Thompson Thesis Whisperer PhD2Published LSE Impact Blog A Don’s Life

Blogs we like: Lorna

http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/ http://drdavidjwalker.wordpress.com/ http://socialmedia4us.wordpress.com/ http://sedasig.wordpress.com/category/seda

-sig/

http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/

Blogs we like: Chris

http://totallyrewired.wordpress.com/

Is your blog personal / professional / both? Are you going to blog anonymously or under

your real name? What conversation do you want to be part

of? Which other blogs will you follow and

comment on?

Things to think about before you blog

Rocking the Cyber Canoe: Blogging in English http://blogsforlearning.msu.edu/articles/view.php?id=3

Search for a Blog http://technorati.com/ Using weblogs to encourage reflective learning in History and Classics http://

www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/hca/documents/Briefing_Papers/Using_weblogs_to_encourage_Reflective_Learning.pdf

Engaging learners in critical reflection University of Edinburgh http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/engage-students-through-blogging/

Teaching Philosophy with Blogs 2.0 http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/tech-in-he/pdf/Section3-Article3.pdf

University of Sheffield case study http://www.shef.ac.uk/ibl/resources/casestudies/informationstudies/blogging

Case Study on Student Blogs in a Blended Learning Course (Book details) http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-1551-1_19

In-service teachers’ learning in weblog-based learning environment: A case study http://

lams2009sydney.lamsfoundation.org/CD/pdfs/C01_Lang.pdf Using Blogs for Peer Feedback in a Creative Writing Course – An Exploratory

Study http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/publications/casestudies/technology/blogs_feedback.php

Some useful links

Using online learning journals to enhance students’ engagement with literary theory http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/explore/publications/casestudies/technology/journals.php

Occupational Therapy / Physiotherapy students engagement with the mo blogging pilot http://www.alps-cetl.ac.uk/interimreport/casestudy5.pdf

Instructional Models for Using Weblogs In eLearning:A Case Study from a Virtual and Hybrid Course http://download.101com.com/syllabus/conf/summer2004/PDFs/w01.pdf#search=%22Teaching%20models%20e-learning%22

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