Our first Faculty Academy 2006 session after the general welcome was a plenary panel discussion/presentation on blogging at UMW. Session leader Steve Greenlaw enticed, coaxed, and otherwise motivated a whole raft of bloggers from many disciplines and both campuses into sharing how they’ve used (or in one case, refused to use) blogs in their teaching and learning.
The results, as you’ll hear, are quite varied. Taken together, they reveal for me a fascinating record of a particular moment in the life of what is still a new IT tool in many learning environments. My staff and I are finding that the idea of a blog is surprisingly resilient and capacious, and that a WordPress blog (for example) can be scaled from a personal journal to a full-blown content management system. That’s not just our discovery, of course; others in the blogosphere report that blogs can be the front end to a complete e-portfolio. I suppose my own fascination is that the notion at the heart of blogging–the narrative of a mind, linked to other narratives and cognitive encounters–turns out to be another way of thinking about thinking itself.
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[...] Gardner has begun posting podcasts from the Mary Washington Faculty Academy. This one links to the an opening discussion on blogging in class, and early on there was a reference to the Faculty Academy’s wiki site. I was impressed when Rob and I went up last year, but I have to admit to being blown away by the scope of the program as outlined in the wiki. I’m hoping that at some point we’ll be able to put a program like this at William and Mary. http://www.gardnercampbell.net/podcast/blogging_conversation.mp3 http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/?p=388 [...]
[...] Gardner Writes » Faculty Academy 2006 Podcast: A Conversation on Blogging at UMW got me thinking about encouraging and facilitating BSU faculty and support staff blogging. Not that I’d personally want to do it, really, but if what they’re doing at UMW is at all typical (and I’d suggest it is), then writing a blog has become part of being a professional. (Which also reminds me that I have to post more often.) [...]