University Blogging?
This is an article in BBC News blog titled Academics give lessons on blogs published around January 2005. There are few lines which I must quote from the article. Esther Maccallum-Stewart, a Sussex University historian is one of the pioneering British academic bloggers who are using the technology to teach…..she said “…my research meant that I was working at more than one terminal, or was occasionally in places where I couldn’t take disks or apparatus with me… The weblog meant a place to store ideas, links and references….I feel very strongly that information should be disseminated into the internet world, but I also feel that academics can become too insular, constructing their own language and cliques which do nothing to promote the getting of knowledge.”
Blogs in Education is a good resource, the opening line is “…this is designed to provide you some resources if you want to get started using blogs for yourself or with your students…” This blog belongs to University Computing & Telecommunications at University of Houston-Clear Lake.
This News titled “Blogging revolution reaches University” in The Michigan Daily talks about blogging platform called M-Blog provided by University of Michigan. The sub-headline is about “nearly 400 university users have started 544 blogs since January 16 on the new M-Blog website”.
This one is for the Library of Georgia State University In fact they have serveral subject specific blogs which are good for viewing by news reader via RSS/XML. This article detailed the rationale behind and how they build a Home for Library News with a BLOG.
This is perhaps one of the most famous blogging system provided by a University. The Warwickblogs powered by blogbuilder provides a platform for students, departments, groups, professors at the University. From their first page you’ll see there are currently 4,58 blogs, 60,175 entreis, 6,591 tags, 137,909 comments…
Weblogs at harvard Law is hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
This blog is by Professor Mike Madison of University of Pittsburgh School of Law. This one is built on WordPress.
This blog is for Oregon State University’s Office of Admissions. I can’t tell which sSoftware/blog engine they have built this one on is WordPress (thanks Mr Blake Vawter, Associate Director of Admissions, Marketing and Communications, Oregon State University who informed me this) as there is no acknowledgement.
This University Channel Blog is by Princeton University. It is powered by Movable Type 3.2.
This blog belongs to the Libraries of Ohio University. This is powered by WordPress.
This one is an UNOFFICIAL blog about Cornell University.
University of South Florida has a platfrom built on WordPress for users with an email accounts with the University to setup their own blog. That serviced started from February 2005.
The Oxford University Press Blog here is powered by Typepad.
This blog by Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is for the entertainment of physicists, future physicists, and people who work with physicists.
This blog by University of Florida is powered by WordPress and also use Podcast to let visitors to either listen via browser or download to their iPod.
This blog is a personal one and the author is the Chairman, College Republicans of University of IL at Springfield. It’s powered by blogger a free platform that doesn’t require hosting.
I have missed a few famous Universities mentioned in WordPress Codex. They are
