Category Archives: Blogs

Sometimes blogs get a bad name (because, let’s face it, some blogs are better than others). But if we didn’t have bad blogs, where would we get parody blogs from? Like this gem from Santa Clause: Sunday 23 December 07… More On: Parody Blogs – Another Benefit to Blogging

Another blog how-to article from the New York Times caught my eye, and I thought I would follow its advice and post to my blog. like this article because it addresses a complaint I hear from my busy colleagues –… More On: Squeezing in Blogging

When you’re in the trenches of tech support, it can be hard to tell if your documentation is helpful or so confusing no one knows how to begin to formulate a question. But I’ve been seeing that my colleagues are… More On: People are Blog Migrating

We have “Blog Migration Documentation” at http://blogger.psu.edu/gethelp, but I thought I should walk the talk. First, I found earlier that the export files from IE7 are funky to say the least, so I used Firefox (and documented this new quirk).… More On: I Migrated A Blog

I just saw that my ETS colleague Brad Kozlek wrote about open blogging in a science lab and I honestly have to agree that this is a good model. In a recent round table with instructors using Blogs at Penn… More On: OK Maybe an Open Blog can Work

We’ve been having some interesting discussions on how the expand and explain the full capabilities of our Movable Type Platform. Movable Type is the engine for Blogs at Penn State, but blogs are not it’s only capability. With the new… More On: Are Blogs Notebooks?

Now that the semester is winding down, I did want to talk a little bit about how blogging is progressing in my course and if either the students or the instructor have learned anything. A while ago, I wrote what… More On: Blogging Update from Linguistics Course