Getting ready to go to participate in a panel discussion at the CCA conference in Wilmington, NC. entitled “What the Tech?” about using blogs in teaching communication. I have collected resources for the talk including some really great articles on ways to use blogs in classes including some good grading ideas. Check out my Diigo site at http://www.diigo.com/list/benignim/caa
Have you ever wished that you could have a threaded conversation within your blog instead of using WebCT? Well now you can. Thanks to John and Jared (CofC Webmasters) and the new blog server upgrade you can have threaded comments. It’s easy to do.
The second thing of note is that only a few blog templates allow the discussions to display as threaded even though you’ve turned threaded on in your settings. To have the threading display properly you will need to use Twodder, Gear, Simplish or P2. Remember, these are the only themes that will actually display the threaded comments.
Now with your threaded comments you can actually track “conversation” in your blog posting making it much more useful for your class.
I have it on good authority that the CofC blog server is going to be upgraded to a new version within the week. It’s a vastly different look and feel but it works the same way. I am currently working on new tutorials and will post them as soon as they are ready!
Well I didn’t so I went on a hunt to learn how. I took me a bit to figure it out but now, in hindsight, it’s not so hard.
Example: nets-for-teachers-20081
