Excellent Examples of Course Blogs in Higher Ed

The University of Mary Washington is certainly leading the way with UMW Blogs in showcasing what is possible in education with a blog publishing platform such as WordPress MU. Other pioneers include Penn State, Harvard, and UMass Amherst, (and of course, The College Blogs at Suffolk University!)

For those who may not have realized the relevance and power of blogs as self-service publishing platforms in higher ed, some good places to start are to explore the Wordcamp conferences (included the just-passed Northeast one) and (UMW) Jim Groom’s blog bavatuesdays, or (Penn State) Cole Camplese’s Learning and Innovation.

Below are some great examples of course blogs from UMW and UMass Amherst. Poke around for admiration and inspiration!

University of Mary Washington Course Blogs:
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Art & Art History

• Professor JeanAnn Dabb’s Mosaics Exhibit
• Professor Marjorie Och’s Venice Seminar
• Professor Carole Garmon’s Sculpture I
• Prof. Rosemary Jesionowski’s Digital Approaches to Fine Art

Biology

• Professor Steve Gallik’s Online Laboratory and Digital Notebooks homepage for Cellular Biology
• Professor Michael Killian’s Biology 121 course blog

Chemistry

• Professor Kelli Slunt’s Freshman Seminar 100Bb: Kitchen Chemistry
• Professor Kelli Slunt’s Chemistry & Society

Classics, Philosophy, & Religion

• Professor Angela Gosetti’s FSEM 100B: The Journey to the Underworld in Greek Myth and Modern Film
• Professor Nina Mikhalevsky’s Ancient Greek Philosophy

Economics

• Professor Steve Greenlaw’s Economics 201
• Professor Steve Greenlaw’s Freshman Seminar: Globalization
• Professor Steve Greenlaw’s Economics 300

English, Linguistics, & Communication

• Professor Mara Scanlon’s Modern Poetry
• Professor Mara Scanlon’s Freshman Seminar: Ethics and Lit
• Professor John Morello’s Communication and the 2008 Presidential Campaign
• Professor Anand Rao’s Communication 205: Public Speaking
• Professor Anand Rao’s Communication 353: Visual Rhetoric
• Professor Tim O’Donnell’s Freshman Seminar: James Farmer and The Great Debaters
• Professor Tim O’Donnell’s Speech 209: Argumentation
• Professor Zachary Whalen The Virtual and the False
• Professor Zachary Whalen Forms of Narrative
• Professor Zachary Whalen Forms of Narrative

History & American Studies

• Prof. Sue Fernsebner’s Introduction to Historical Methods
• Professor Steve Harris’s Socialism: Theory and Practice
• Professor Steve Harris’s Stalin and Stalinism
• Prof. Jeff McClurken’s Freshman Seminar: Marching Home
• Professor Jeff McClurken’s U.S. History in Film
• Professor Krystyn Moon’s Consumerism Seminar

Modern Foreign Languages

• Professor Betsy Lewis’s Spanish Realism
• Professor Jeremy LaRochelle’s Ideas of Nature in Latin American Literature
• Professor Jeremy LaRochelle’s Spanish Composition and Spanish
• Professor Scott Power’s Contemporary France Seminar
• Professor Marcel Rotter’s German 399

Sociology

• Professor Kristin Marsh’s History of Social Theory

University of Massachusetts Amherst Course Blogs:

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  Anthropology 104
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  Astronomy 101/
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  Communication 397SS
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  Journalism 392W
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  udaic Studies 390i
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  Kinesiology 530
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  Physics 190E
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  Resources Economics 112