Blogs as a Student Content Management System was presented by Professor Rick Musser (University of Kansas) and I at the Media Convergence: Cooperation, Collisions, and Change conference at Brigham Young University in fall 2005. It was published in the The Journal of Electronic Publishing Fall 2007 edition.
Although some of the technical information is outdated, the message still rings true… blogs are excellent content management systems for managing student work with little or no technical skills needed by students or faculty.
staci martin-wolfe | 05-Nov-07 at 9:15 pm | Permalink
I sent an email to Judith Turner, the editor of The Journal of Electronic Publishing with some updates for the original paper. Unfortunately, my email never made it to Judith. I never heard back from her and none of the edits I suggested were made.
Here’s a bit of what I modified:
to me wanting to know if they will learn Dreamweaver in my online
journalism class. My answer is a strict “No. You will learn basic HTML
and how to report and write for the web. Jeesh.” Dreamweaver is a buzz
word, it’s also a crutch and a huge pain in the arse for professors.
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I suggest removing the section about Ingeniux, there are so many other
CMS that are available today (OpenSource). The point is, that blogging
software is the easiest way to get your students publishing online
with minimum hassle for the staff/faculty.
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Updated WordPress stats – http://wordpress.com/stats/signups. More
than a million blogs to date, I think.
I definitely think you should cut the technical stuff. It is more than
a year old!