Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Saturday, May 27, 2006
Blogging Student Life - Linda L. Briggs, Campus Technologies
Want a better way to get students involved in the campus community? Start a college events blog. Estimates vary widely, but there’s no disputing that there are millions of Web logs, or blogs, out there—more than 100 million, according to The Blog Herald, a blog site about blogs. Most blogs are essentially public online diaries consisting of dated entries with personal opinion and commentary. The popularity of blogs soared leading up to the 2004 presidential election (when even presidential candidates like Howard Dean joined the blogging bandwagon) and they’re beginning to be considered a more mainstream communication medium.

 



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