<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Ted,<div>A few years ago a colleague and I put together an online resource for blogging in the classroom. It's online at: <a href="http://blogsforlearning.msu.edu/">http://blogsforlearning.msu.edu/</a></div><div><br></div><div>We haven't updated it in a while, but most of the material is still relevant, and there's a piece specifically on blogging in large classes by Alex Halavais.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><div>Nicole</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Howard Welser wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Does anyone here have experience using blogs with students? </div><br><div>Currently I am using a simple blogspot blog with my seminar class, and I feel it is working well, but many things can work ok on a small scale that fail horribly as they grow. </div> <div><br></div><div><a href="http://group-processes-social-change.blogspot.com/">http://group-processes-social-change.blogspot.com/</a></div><div> </div><div>However. . . . . . I will have 400 students in Intro to Soc winter quarter-- and will need to modify my strategies to adapt to the larger context. </div> <div><br></div><div>any advice and pointers are appreciated. <br clear="all"><br></div><div>ted</div><div><br>-- <br>Howard T. Welser<br>Assistant Professor<br>Department of Sociology & Anthropology<br>Ohio University<br> Bentley Annex 109<br>Athens, Ohio 45701<br>740.597-2722<br> </div> _______________________________________________<br>CITASA mailing list<br><a href="mailto:CITASA@list.citasa.org">CITASA@list.citasa.org</a><br>http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 28px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 28px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "> * * * </span></span></font></div><div style="; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 28px; ; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 28px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Nicole Ellison, PhD</span></span></font></div><div style="; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 28px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;; font-family: Helvetica; "><i style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; "><a href="mailto:nellison@msu.edu">nellison@msu.edu</a></span></i></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 28px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 28px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>