Blogging to Engage Students
Malartu Inc is helping professors find their voice on the web at the Teaching Professor Technology Conference 2014 in Denver. Here’s the presentation that Jean Ramirez and Jim Luke of Lansing Community College are giving about “Blogging to Engage Students, Enhance Learning, and Save Time”, or in other words, how to get your own voice on the web and connect. Slides and links after the jump:
Examples of:
Blogs as Source of Information:
- http://thecrankysociologists.com
- http://www.sociologyinfocus.com
- http://socl120.wordpress.com
- http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
- http://economicshelp.org/blog
- http://calculatedriskblog.com
Platform for Student Research and Critical Thinking/Evaluation of Info:
- http://socl120.wordpress.com/category/social-location/
- http://nomnompaleo.com/
- http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/
Delivering Concepts to Students (and by Students)
Course Content
Content + Participation
As faculty portfolio or time saver:
Some student created content:
To signup and get your own blog(s):
at WordPress-as-a-service providers (free w/ optional paid upgrades)
How to get your own site(s) on a “self-hosted” WordPress:
Aspirational Goal: Bug the heck out of your IT department until they cave.
Good: Get your own vanilla hosting accounts at most any commercial webhost (such as GoDaddy, Dreamhost, WPEngine, etc.) and install WP using the 5-min install
Better: contact http://malartu.org
Better: go to http://reclaimhosting.com
Where we will all eventually get to:
About us, the presenters and how to reach us:
Jean Ramirez
Jim Luke
- lukej@lcc.edu
- jol@malartu.org
- http://jimluke.com
- http://econproph.com
- http://econproph.net
- on Twitter: @econproph
