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Main Authors: Nackerud, Shane, Scaletta, Kurtis
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ824831
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author Nackerud, Shane
Scaletta, Kurtis
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contents Blogging in the Academy Nackerud, Shane Scaletta, Kurtis Higher Education Web Sites Electronic Publishing College Libraries Computer Mediated Communication College Faculty Computer Uses in Education College Students Privacy Internet Field Trips Computer Security Blogs are a hot topic in academia. A search on "blog" in the "Chronicle of Education's" Web site returns nearly two hundred articles, covering such topics as the dangers an impolitic blog can do to an institution's leaders (Read, 2006) or the blogger's career (Tribble, 2005) and the mutual use of blogs by instructors to lambaste students (Lipka, 2006) and vice versa (Bartlett, 2005). Just as journalists think of blogging as a form of journalism (Grossman, 2004) and young women view blogs as a form of diary (Gumbrecht, Nardi, Schiano, and Swartz, 2004), the archives of the "Chronicle of Higher Education" show that many people in academia view--and judge--blogs as forms of academic production or a vehicle for scholars to become public intellectuals. In this article, the authors discuss the use of blogs in higher education, including how students and instructors use blogs, the value of blogs in this setting, and privacy and security implications. They conclude with information on how the University of Minnesota library system has implemented a blogging program called UThink to enhance its services. (Contains 1 table.)
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spellingShingle Blogging in the Academy
Nackerud, Shane
Scaletta, Kurtis
Higher Education
Web Sites
Electronic Publishing
College Libraries
Computer Mediated Communication
College Faculty
Computer Uses in Education
College Students
Privacy
Internet
Field Trips
Computer Security
Blogging in the Academy Nackerud, Shane Scaletta, Kurtis Higher Education Web Sites Electronic Publishing College Libraries Computer Mediated Communication College Faculty Computer Uses in Education College Students Privacy Internet Field Trips Computer Security Blogs are a hot topic in academia. A search on "blog" in the "Chronicle of Education's" Web site returns nearly two hundred articles, covering such topics as the dangers an impolitic blog can do to an institution's leaders (Read, 2006) or the blogger's career (Tribble, 2005) and the mutual use of blogs by instructors to lambaste students (Lipka, 2006) and vice versa (Bartlett, 2005). Just as journalists think of blogging as a form of journalism (Grossman, 2004) and young women view blogs as a form of diary (Gumbrecht, Nardi, Schiano, and Swartz, 2004), the archives of the "Chronicle of Higher Education" show that many people in academia view--and judge--blogs as forms of academic production or a vehicle for scholars to become public intellectuals. In this article, the authors discuss the use of blogs in higher education, including how students and instructors use blogs, the value of blogs in this setting, and privacy and security implications. They conclude with information on how the University of Minnesota library system has implemented a blogging program called UThink to enhance its services. (Contains 1 table.)
title Blogging in the Academy
topic Higher Education
Web Sites
Electronic Publishing
College Libraries
Computer Mediated Communication
College Faculty
Computer Uses in Education
College Students
Privacy
Internet
Field Trips
Computer Security
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ824831