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://edublogs.org

http://wordpress.org/

MASC 491 Netvibes Website

What Does BloggingHave 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?

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Next Steps?