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Academic blogs: Connecting people and ideas

How can blogging help academics disseminate their research, reach out to students, and connect with people far away from campus? Hear the answers to these questions and more from some of Canada's premiere academic bloggers.

Career Corner at Congress 2009

Presenters: Michael Barbour, assistant professor at Wayne State University; Carolyn Steele, Career Sense blogger and PhD candidate at York University; and Mary Cameron, assistant professor at Memorial University
Moderator: Dale Kirby, assistant professor at Memorial University

Academic Blogging – an introduction (9:06)

0:00 - 0:35    Introducing the panel
0:35 - 1:37    Nuts and bolts of blogging
1:37 - 5:25    Pedagogy behind blogs
5:25 - 7:08    Pedagogical possibilities
7:08 - 8:56    Academic applications

The panellists and their blogs (8:35)

0:00 - 2:02    Michael Barber's Virtual High School Meanderings
2:02 - 3:56    Carolyn Steele's Career Sense
3:56 - 7:04    Mary Cameron's Critical Issues in Math Education at Memorial
7:04 - 8:25    Blogging platforms for new bloggers

Advice for new bloggers (4:13)

0:00 - 1:25    Is a blog the appropriate platform for you?
1:25 - 4:04    How can you add to the existing online discussion?

Advice for new bloggers, part two (7:00)

0:00 - 1:37    Make your blog as public or private as you want
1:37 - 2:00    Comments can be moderated
2:00 - 3:43    Case study: Kirby's post on Bill Ayers
3:43 - 5:57    Keep the content freshly updated and diverse
5:57 - 6:52    Communicating from conferences

How blogging applies to academic work (9:00)

0:00 - 3:04    Connecting colleagues, researchers and practitioners
3:04 - 5:41    Blogs as disseminators of research
5:41 - 7:35    Encouraging students to blog
7:35 - 8:50    Supplementing course work

Are faculty ever censored? (3:31)

0:00 - 1:02    Can blogging hinder professional advancement?
1:02 - 2:46    Navigating conflicts of interest
2:46 - 3:20    What is Web 2.0?

The interactivity of blogs (4:34)

0:00 - 1:07    Bringing the academy to the public
1:07 - 2:30    The poll that launched a discussion
2:30 - 3:48    How to generate interest and promote interactivity
3:48 - 4:24    Blogs as shared resources

Time management, plagiarism and commenting (7:33)

0:00 - 0:56    Does blogging hinder other academic work?
0:56 - 1:44    Is plagiarism an issue with blogs?
1:44 - 2:59    Case study: Don Tapscott - Grown Up Digital (TVO interview)
2:59 - 5:20    Make a blog worth your department's while
5:20 - 6:39    How commenting and trackbacks work
6:39 - 7:22    When blogs generate conversations

What is a wiki? (4:03)

0:00 - 1:13    Who can edit wikis
1:13 - 2:43    Case study: Virtual Schooling
2:43 - 3:53    The importance of tags