To Blog or Not To Blog
Is That The Question ?

How Have These
Recent Changes on
the Web Opened
Up Opportunities
for Academic
Publishing?

Scholarly Academic
• Public Intellectual
• Open Community of Practice
• Critically Reflective Discourse

Public Intellectual

Open Community of Practice

Open Community of Practice

Critically Reflective Practice

How Could Blogs
Be Used Instructionally?

http://www.blogger.com http://wordpress.org/
http://edublogs.org

MASC 491 Netvibes Website

What Does Blogging
Have to Do with
Academic Publishing
???

Is Blogging Harmful

Questions
• Do blogs fit within existing forms of scholarly communication?
• Do blogs fit within the criteria for tenure and promotion?
• What are the mechanisms for validating blogs?
• What is the future of blogging?

Next Steps?
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