Corporate Systems Board -- a termly meeting of Exec and others charged with developing and implementing the University's information strategies -- were impressed when it last met that one of its papers was a blog post. elearning-ysju.blogspot.com is the address for the 'e-Learning @ York St John University' blog, "an informal place where the department will post information about what we're currently doing, advances in technologies, web 2.0, useful website links and general issues affecting the world of e-Learning and learning technology." (There's more about e-Learning at York St John on their website.)
We all thought it was a great idea, so I've set this Registry blog up to see if it can help things from our side too. As Mark describes in his blog, "Lots of people have heard of weblogs or blogs, but many are unsure of what they are or how they are used. This is a blog - a website where we can send messages which are posted in reverse chronological order, to which people can comment upon. Blogs can be on a variety of topics, a single topic or just a stream of consciousness, with the main aim of letting the world know what the blogger thinks and feels."
I suppose I should have a disclaimer at the foot of every page along the lines of "the views expressed here are those of the individual and not necessarily those of the University" blah blah blah. Anyway, I've made a start, let's see if I can keep this up.
2 comments:
Hey Terry, your blog looks great, well done.
As you say, we have to concentrate on keeping them current now that we've established them.
My general view is that even if they are not popular with colleagues, they'll become a really good departmental record of projects, issues and progress.
Cheers for that Mark, you're quite right. And I hadn't appreciated that departmental record aspect: I like that.
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