I am writing a series of pages about blogging for http://brookesblogs.net.
The audience is
- Teachers of undergraduates,
- Undergraduates at Oxford Brookes
- Other students and staff who might use the service,
- Other stakeholders and policy makers
The first wave of university blogging services has long since flowed. The BBC covered it in 2005 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4194669.stm)
The list below is only a quick sample of some of the more significant, or visible of UK universities’ blogging services or directories.
University blog services
- Warwick, the UK leader (http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/)
- University of Glamorgan Blog Network (http://www.glam.ac.uk/blogs/1441)
- Newcastle Blogs (http://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/)
- Blogging from Bath (http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/)
- Oxford University (http://www.ox.ac.uk/blogs.html)
- Leeds Blogs (using Elgg https://elgg.leeds.ac.uk/)
- City University Journalsm Faculty (http://www.city.ac.uk/journalism/people/faculty/blogs.php)
- Glasgow University Student Blogs (http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/studentnetwork/studentblogs/)
- University of Northampton Library (http://library.northampton.ac.uk/blog/)
- Birmingham City University (http://www.bcu.ac.uk/blogs)
HE organisations
- Higher Education Academy Pathfinder (http://elearning.heacademy.ac.uk/weblogs/pathfinder/?page_id=2)
- JISC Involve (http://jiscinvolve.org/)
- Archives Hub (http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/blog/)
- Repositories support blogs (http://www.rsp.ac.uk/blogs/)
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