* Academics give lessons on blogs *
Lecturers are increasingly using blogging as a tool for teaching and learning.
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Until a few months ago, the attention paid to web logs, or blogs, focused mainly on politics and the media business.
However, many in academia followed the web-diary of Salam Pax, the famous Baghdad blogger during the build-up to the war in Iraq.
Now, the technology that has been an alternative source of news to many academics is being incorporated more fully into university life.
Blogs are giving departments, staff and students the freedom and informality of tone impossible in scholarly journals or even the student newspaper.
Blogging lecturers say the technology provides them with easy online web access to students and improves communication outside of the classroom. .
However, many in academia followed the web-diary of Salam Pax, the famous Baghdad blogger during the build-up to the war in Iraq.
Now, the technology that has been an alternative source of news to many academics is being incorporated more fully into university life.
Blogs are giving departments, staff and students the freedom and informality of tone impossible in scholarly journals or even the student newspaper.
Blogging lecturers say the technology provides them with easy online web access to students and improves communication outside of the classroom. .
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Academics can become too insular, constructing their own language and cliques which do nothing to promote the getting of knowledge
Esther Maccallum-Stewart, Sussex University
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Warwick not only wants those within its four walls to be able to self-publish to the web.
John Dale, its head of IT services, says the university aims to provide new personal development opportunities for students and believes that blogs might be one means of helping to accomplish this.
"We believe that blogging may open new opportunities for students and staff," says Mr Dale. "It gives students an opportunity to work together on projects."
John Dale, its head of IT services, says the university aims to provide new personal development opportunities for students and believes that blogs might be one means of helping to accomplish this.
"We believe that blogging may open new opportunities for students and staff," says Mr Dale. "It gives students an opportunity to work together on projects."
There are three such blogs in the Business School at Warwick alone and the university hopes that staff will also use blogs for collaborative projects.
