Options for community blogging

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Elgg is a community blog site that can be used to create individual blog sites for students.

Advantages:

• Elgg has a built in community feature that allows users to subscribe to each others blogs directly.
• There is a built in RSS aggregator that allows you to get feeds from your favorite websites.
• They support several universities in communal blogging endeavors.
• UF could have a specific site set up for our use.
• Access and community can exist beyond formal class (i.e., opportunity for supporting informal learning and a community of interest).

Blogger or any free blogware can be used in concert with an RSS aggregator to allow students to create individual sites that can be aggregated for sharing.

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Blogger could be set up to allow students to interact on the same blog.

Advantages:

• Access and community can exist beyond formal class (i.e., opportunity for supporting informal learning and a community of interest).
• Classes can be set up in advance and prepopulated for students to work in assigned groups.

Examples:

• My weblog powered by Elgg.
• College Composition powered by Blogger.
• Student Teacher Blog is another good example of Blogger at work.

Weblog Research:

• Exploring the use of blogs as learning spaces in the education sector by Williams & Jacobs (2004).

• Communication dynamics: Discussion boards, weblogs and the development of communities of inquiry in online learning environments by James Farmer at Incorporated Subversion.

• What About Blogs? is a literature review introducing nascent pedo-blogs to the blogging world by NICOLE CONVERSE LIVENGOOD for PROFRESSOR LINDA BERGMANN'S writing across the curriculum seminar at Purdue University.

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