I've been doing a bit more searching for information about how weblogs can be used in education. My goal is to convince someone at UW to hire me for the summer to start a university weblog project. Hey, Harvard and Stanford have one, maybe UW will consider it. UW is supposed to be all being a leader in technological innovation. From reading IST's direction and strategy for UW.
"UW should"
"Be a leader in an increasingly networked world and encourage the development and use of new connectivity, to the extent that UW becomes known as "Canada's Connected Campus."
"Identify strategies, pilot projects, and initiatives that foster an environment with a focus on both connectivity and on developing and enhancing access to electronic learning material."
I think that a weblog project would fit under these two strategies very nicely. It really seems to me like blogging in education could take off very soon. Today I ran across James Farmer's blog which mentions Edublogs and yesterday my brother pointed me to Webloggg-ed. And from RMIT this is an long research paper titled Blogs: personal e-Learning spaces .
Posted by Matt Langeman at March 5, 2003 05:25 AM