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 .
This is a static version of the weblog I created as part my CS480 assignement 2 presentation. I created the site on my personal computer using Moveable Type. However, the public sever on which my pubic site is hosted doesn't yet have the correct perl modules installed. Therefore I decided to simply copy the files over from my computer to the host. This means you cannot comment on posts at this time.
My report discusses how weblogs can be used as a business tool. Please read the report as it follows the more formal guildlines found for the web page marking scheme. The weblog format has a more informal feel which I feel is actually one of its benefits. For reading of the weblog I suggest that you start with the first post and proceed in cronological order. There is a list of the entries on the left navigation bar.