A Technology Exploration Lab for Faculty:

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Weblogs in Higher Education
John NiedzielskiTeaching Learning Multimedia
SpecialistCalvin Information Technology
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What is a Weblog?

• Quick easy publishing to the Web
• Journals, diaries, news
• Content management
• Entries vs. pages
• Syndication via RSS feeds
• fauxcasting

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Issues

• Students already have them
• Xanga, Myspace, Facebook, Blogger, etc.
• But who is reading them?
• Friends, parents, administrators, employers
• Campus discussions

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Choosing a Weblog Tool

• Official CIT project team
• Requirements
• Trade-offs
• Expression Engine(Wordpress, Drupal, Blojsom)

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3 Most Important Things

• Content!
• Content!!
• Content!!!

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Course Weblogs

• Interims/off-campus programs
• South Africa
• Honduras
• Snow Mountain Ranch
• Ireland, Hawaii, and more
• English Journalism
• Engineering

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Recruiting, PR, and Outreach

• Admissions Reflecting my life at Calvin
• Minds in the Making
• Calvin Institute for Christian Worship
• Pivot
• Orientation
• Service Learning

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Internal Communication

• IT Connection
• CIT Summer Workshops
• Human Resources
• Career Services

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Questions?

• John Niedzielski
• jmn5_at_calvin.edu
• www.calvin.edu/weblogs