Warwick University Does Blogs
I’ve just discovered that Warwick Uni is doing blogs in a big way. They’re giving all students and staff a hosted blog, and are even grouping them by department and course. They currently have 2008 registered blogs, which seems like a good takeup rate, and 8749 blog entries. Its all powered by a ‘Blogbuilder’ backend, which they seem to have developed in-house.
Their FAQ lists some reasons why Warwick is providing blogs, summarised here:
- To create communities of interest.
- To encourage creativity and development of writing skills.
- To support ‘personal development planning’, something that all universities are apparently supposed to do.
- To help with job-hunting (employers like blogs).
- To provide a record of thoughts and events over the years spent at uni.
- To publish coursework on (great that they acknowledge this and don’t discourage it for fears of plagairism).
- To allow anyone to publish a website easily with technical skills.
All pretty good reasons I think, and it’d be good if the model (and the sofware?) could be taken up by other unis…
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Title: Warwick University Does Blogs
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- Monday 8th November 2004, 2:47 pm
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