The weblog in higher education - Examples From: Using weblogs as a tool in teaching and Research: Types and examples of use of weblogs in universities
[ by José Luis Orihuela , professor at the University of Navarra and author of the weblog eCuaderno.com , Proceedings of the original VI University Forum Communication Research, Fall Cycle, University Complutense de Madrid , 2005, in press] " 1) centralized services weblogs
------------------- ------------------------- Some universities centrally managed service editing and publishing weblogs for the entire academic community or for some facilities or projects.
UThink: Blogs at the University Libraries (University of Minnesota, U.S.)
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ Harvard-hosted weblogs
http://blogs.law .harvard.edu/directory/36/harvardWeblogs/harvardhostedWeblogs
Cornell.edu Redesign (a weblog to facilitate the participation of the university community in the redesign of the website of Cornell University)
http://web.cornell.edu/redesign/blog/ 2) Weblogs as university marketing tool ----------------------------------------- --------------------------- Weblogs expert, and in some cases even the weblogs of students, operating directly or indirect and marketing resources of the university.
Lawrence Lessig (Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society)
http://www.lessig.org/blog/ Blogs UW (University of Waterloo, CA)
http://www.blogging.uwaterloo.ca/ 3) Weblogs centers / academic departments ---------- -------------------------------------------------- Due to the nature and social and cultural dimension of their research, some universities manage to project their own weblogs as a permanent reference sites on the Net
Blogs at the Center for Internet and Society (Stanford)
http:/ / cyberlaw.stanford.edu / blogs / octet : Educational Technology (Centre d'Educació i Noves Tecnologies of the Universitat Jaume I)
http://cent.uji.es/octeto/ The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology (University of Toronto, CA)
http://www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca/blogger/blogger.html Weblogs At Harvard Law (Harvard University, U.S.)
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ 4) Weblogs research groups ------ --------------------------------------- visibility and coordination of a group research can be improved by the use of weblogs as a tool for project management and dissemination of research results.
Computing Culture Group (Media Lab, MIT, U.S.)
http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/compcult/ Critical Analysis Group "Democracy and Power" (University of Valencia, ES) http://www
.lapaginadefinitiva.com / weblog / demopod / ICTlogy (Campus for Peace, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, ES)
http://www.ictlogy.net/ Media Fabrics (Media Frabrics, MIT, U.S.)
http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/mf/
5) Weblogs Chairs --------------------- ------- Weblogs change the way you manage information and communication between teachers and students under the chairs or subjects. Serve as a complement to the theory sessions, directory of links and documents, bulletin board, place of publication in collaboration, collection of feedback and memory online from the chair.
Chair of Data Processing (University of Buenos Aires, AR)
http://www.ilhn.com/datos/ modern Hits (Department of Fundamentals of Digital Communication, UVIC, ES)
http:// www.dialogica.com.ar/clicsmodernos/
Communication (UM, AR)
http://www.ilhn.com/comunicacion/ Digital Journalism Course
(USTA, AR)
http://www.ilhn.com/periodismo/ Dialogic (portal of various chairs of Argentine universities)
http://www.dialogica.com.ar/ Epistemology of Communication (UNR, AR)
http://dialogica.com.ar/unr/epicom/ Forming students with new technologies (Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires, AR)
http://www. ilhn.com/derecho2003 / Interactive (Blog author's teacher support)
http://blogia.com/jlori/ 6) Weblogs of teachers / researchers ------------------------------------------------ The "research blogs" represent a booming genre. Professors and researchers from different specialties daily published resources of interest, research results, progress of ongoing projects, texts of speeches and articles, facilitating their recognition as experts and peer networking. Alternative
(Maria Luisa Santos, UNAV, ES)
http://alternativa.bitacoras.com/ e-journalists (Ramón Salaverria, UNAV, ES)
http://e-periodistas.blogspot.com/ eCuaderno (author, UNAV, ES)
http://www.ecuaderno.com/ El Blog de Enrique Dans (Department of Information Systems and Technology, Instituto de Empresa, IE)
http://edans.blogspot.com/ Journalism e Comunicação (group, University of Minho, PT)
http://webjornal.blogspot.com/
Protoblog (Arturo Moya, IES, AR)
http://arturomoya.blogia.com/ Scriptor.org (Juan Jose Garcia-Noblejas, PUSC, IT) http://scriptor.typepad.com/
So this is mass communication? (Kaye Trammell, Louisiana State University, U.S.)
http://kaye.trammell.com/blog/ 7) Weblogs doctoral --------------------------------- Keep a journal research is not a practice foreign to the development of a doctoral thesis. Weblogs are also online journals that provide new researchers the task of collection and identification of expert sources, hypothesis testing, publication of preliminary results and networking.
Elisabete Barbosa (Universidade do Minho, PT)
http://webjornalismo.blogspot.com/ Gonzalo Frasca (Center for Computer Games Research IT University, DK)
http://ludology.org/ José Manuel Noguera (Universidad Católica San Antonio, ES)
http://laazotea.blogspot.com/ Stephanie Hendrick (Department of Modern Languages, Umeå University, SE)
http://www.sumofmyparts.com/ blog / 8) Weblogs students ---------------------------- Weblogs are an appropriate means to advance the digital literacy of students, helps them gain new perspectives on the network and improve their communication. A weblog held in earnest can become an online portfolio that contributes to their professional so more effective than a CV.
GurusBlog (group, ex-students of the masters of IESE and IE, IE)
http://gurusblog.com/ Intertainment (group, students MGEC, University of Navarra, ES)
http:// intertainment.blogspot.com / Weblogs Audiovisual Design (University of Navarra, ES)
http://www.unav.es/digilab/da/blogs2.htm 9) Weblogs conference -----------------------------
congresses, conferences and seminars on weblogs are an ideal vehicle for dissemination of updated information generation previous and subsequent discussions, social networking and marketing the event.
III International Congress of the English Language (2004, Rosario, AR)
http://weblog.educ.ar/congreso-lengua/ V Conference on Arts and Multimedia (2005, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bES)
http: / / metanarratives.blogspot.com / BlogTalk 2.0 (2004, Vienna, AT)
http://blogtalk.net/ Encontro Weblogs (2003, Braga, PT)
http://encontrodeweblogs.blogspot . com / NSBA T + L2 Conference Weblog (2004, Denver, U.S.)
http://nsba.edweblogs.org/t+l/2004/ 10) Directories and other resources ------------------------------------- There are numerous directories of researchers weblogs and weblogs group of the academic community. Educational Bloggers Network The network is a good starting point for teachers, while the PhDweblogs database is ideal for graduate students. Praxis EdBlogger
http://educational.blogs.com/edbloggerpraxis/ Educational Bloggers Network
http://www.ebn.weblogger.com/ PhDweblogs
http://www.phdweblogs.net / http://rhetorica.net/professors_who_blog.htm Professors Who Blog Research Blogs (Jill Walker)
http://huminf.uib.no/ ~ jill / txt / researchblogs.html Research Blogs (group)
http://researchblogs.org/ ScholarsWhoBlog
http://alex.halavais.net/files/ScholarsWhoBlog
This type has no intention to exhaust the many convergences between weblogs and universities, but to provide a sample of the potential of a medium that has emerged as a powerful tool for knowledge management.
" I am developing an electronic book for that purpose, I hope to you, dear professors and colleagues participate with their input and knowledge. At
. Hipolito Rodriguez C.
