…email me (C.K.) and I’ll set it up for you.

Example #3: Professor Lawrence Lessig has a very well-known blog. He is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and “teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace.”

Example #2: One of the most well-known academic blogs / bloggers out there is AKMA, who is a Professor in New Testament at Seabury.

For those of you who are cautious about this blogging idea, I* thought I’d point to a few examples of other educational institutions that use blogging effectively and the ways that they use them. The first example that I’d like to point to is this post on the Shifted Librarian written by a very active librarian where she discusses a presentation she is giving on blogs vs. wikis for use by libraries.

*this is C.K.

I thought some of you might be interested in The Open Library, which is an attempt

to demonstrate a way that books can be represented online.

The vision is to create free web access to important book collections from around the world.

Books are scanned and then offered in an easy-to-use interface for free reading online. If they’re in the public domain, the books can be downloaded, shared and printed for free. They can also be printed for a nominal fee by a third party, who will bind and mail the book to you. The books are always FREE to read at the Open Library website.

These types of projects are interesting, both at their face value, and in the sense that I think we should be considering how we as a University can offer this sort of project freely to the public. It’s great PR and I think goes along with our central mission statement. Bill was in here earlier and mentioned communicating with the Library about ideas like this, both for distributing information in textual form, and other uses, like class lectures and guest speakers presentations provided as podcasts. What do you all think?

Just as an FYI for everyone who isn’t familiar with this format. It is more or less a low maintenance website, in that you do not have to design the site, but use a template instead. The focus is on the content. I started another free blog on the edublog servers, where I’ve been linking to and commenting on different technologies that I think might be of interest to Faculty / Staff or useful for our internal use. This site also auto-generates something called an RSS feed, which you can subscribe to with a program like Newsgator or a service like Bloglines, so that you don’t have to check back to this page for updates, but can simply be notified when any new content is added.

We are testing this new form of communication.  Pleaes add your comments, ideas, and thoughts.

I would like to start a discussion on smart classroom images. While some of us think a full version of Symantec should be installed, others believe that it will make the machines too slow.  What do you think?