Here is the presentation from our session on using blogs. It’s also available as a video from iTunes U.

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Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has received a few million dollars in funding, according to CNET.  They’re holding to their open, small pieces loosely joined policy, and hope to tackle some of the sticky issues related to blogging, such as comment spam.  I’m personally looking forward to seeing more from them, especially in the blog [...]

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I’ve been working on getting Wordpress Mu up and running for Bryn Mawr.  It’s been up since the summer, running mostly on an experimental basis.  One thing that I wanted to get working was creating a dynamic front page that pulled posts from all the blogs.  Between not having the time and not being too [...]

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For those of you unable to attend last week’s presentation on social software, here are a few resources from the talk:

Martha’s Bookmarks from del.icio.us
UMW Blog site
Steve’s talk web site
Jean-Claude’s wiki on his Second Life island
A talk from Jean-Claude on using wikis as lab notebooks

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This week, Mark and I talk to Shannon Hauser, a Sophomore at University of Mary Washington who blogs at Loaded Learning. She participated in a Freshman Seminar that incorporated blogging and also works for the Division of Teaching and Learning Technology at UMW. She talks about how blogging has enhanced her education and [...]

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Mark flies solo and breaks down the latest salvo from Michael Gorman, noted library curmudgeon, with guest Jon Mark Bolthouse of the University of Wisconsin Colleges.
References include Scott McLemee’s article summarizing the Gorman post on Inside Higher Ed, Steven Bell, and of course Michael Gorman

Enjoy!
Episode 18 (approx. 33 min., 35 Mb)

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