Northern Voice 2008

What if we didn't understand what we do in education with blogs as
"blogging" but as a quick and easy way to publish online within a
learning community? Or a place to feature a portfolio of students best
work? Or a site where professors and staff track their professional
and personal development? What if we understood "campus blogging
initiatives" as a community publishing platform to share, learn, and
integrate various resources from around the web into a more specific
community?

This presentation will offer an alternative means of
conceptualizing how university networks might approach supporting
teaching and learning technologies by designing their online
publishing systems around an RSS-rich aggregation system of open
syndication, rather than closed repositories and Learning Management
Systems that seldom, if ever, allow or enable communication outside
the walls of the course. Specifically, we will describe how we have
used WordPress Multi User to build an enterprise-level educational
publishing platform, and how it has fundamentally changed and
transformed the online component of teaching and learning beyond
the tools of the standard LMS.