If you’ve never created a blog and aren’t quite sure how it might support your particular classes or teaching style, here are a couple basic ideas from faculty last spring:
- a class website for basic information, announcements or updates during the semester
- a repository for documents, reading lists, assignment sheets, presentation slides, or links to articles
- a collection of media you have created, links to strong content online or on iTunes, or embedded media from websites like YouTube
- a discussion board for students to respond to material or the work of classmates
(*ask about privacy settings) - a place for students to submit media projects or collaborative work for feedback
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What we learned last semester was that WordPress provides a flexible set of publishing tools that diverse faculty would use in a variety of ways.
While you’re considering how ACU Blogs might serve your needs, here are a handful of class blogs from faculty at ACU and at other universities to give you some idea of the range of possible uses:
- Mike Wiggins, ART Courses Blog and ART 351: Basic Visual Communication
- Kyle Dickson, ENGL 221: Major British Writers
- Kenneth Pybus, JMC 488: Communication Law
- English Department, ENGL 111/112: Composition Blog
Study Abroad, ACU in Oxford Blog
University Mary Washington Courses