For session on blogging at Teaching and Learning with Technology Institute, June 2009

1. To Blog or Not To Blog
Is That The Question ?

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

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

7. Public Intellectual

8. Open Community of Practice

9. Open Community of Practice

10. Critically Reflective Practice

12. How Could Blogs
Be Used Instructionally?

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

14. MASC 491 Netvibes Website

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

16. Is Blogging Harmful

17. 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?

18. Next Steps?
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