According to Frankie Roberto, the University of Warwick is encouraging its students to blog. Nice.
- To create communities of interest.
- To encourage creativity and development of writing skills.
- To support ‘personal development planning’, something that all universities are apparently supposed to do.
- To help with job-hunting (employers like blogs).
- To provide a record of thoughts and events over the years spent at uni.
- To publish coursework on.
- To allow anyone to publish a website easily with technical skills.
Of course!
Hang on – employers like blogs?! Does anybody have any evidence for this? I’ve never really heard of that. I’ve thought of posting essays and stuff up here before – but I’ve never been quite sure enough to do it. I guess I might as well. Sometime… I cited a blog in my last essay. Hope they don’t have a problem with that…
From a quick scan through some of the Warwick Uni blogs, they’ve got quite a buzzing community going on. A step above WebCT, that’s for sure… A fantastic idea. It’s not an obvious one. You occasionally hear stories about Primary 4s getting blogs and stuff, but this is a whole lot more exciting.
The community aspect is exciting, but if I went to Warwick I probably wouldn’t use their blogging system. The fact that some sort of authority figure could be reading my snide comments about their unprofessionalism is scary enough when it’s being hosted on Blogger!