education

I’ve been researching student blogging in higher education. I find mainly 3 kinds of university blogging:
1.Student blogs run by either student services or admissions that aim to provide a “window” into student life. I assume that these are supervised in some way. Perhaps the writers are even paid. These exist in abundance.
2.Completely open blog site where anyone can publish are much more rare. These havepolicies but individual blogs don’t seem to be heavily controlled. Examples of this are: University of Minnesota and Case. Otis fits in this category for the moment.
3.Blogging encouraged either by faculty for courses or by the school, but requiring administrative approval and oversight. Often these are run on non-university open platforms.
-- Sue Maberry, Otis College

Phillip Long, MIT

In the first Marcus Fellows grant to the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts 14 years ago, the Fellows accepted a technological challenge. In collaboration with the Dallas Museum of Art, they developed an interactive CD-ROM to teach fifth graders about art. In more recent years, nearly every proposal to the foundation has included elements of technology. Today, through Marcus Foundation grants, Texas museums routinely send curriculum-basedart lessons electronically directly into classrooms, collaborate with teachers across the state to develop lesson plans, and deliver those plans via the Internet to teachers whose schools are often too far from a museum for field trips.