CAS Academic Technology News

Need a blog for departmental, research, or course purposes? Academic Technology hosts and supports the CAS Blogs, available to all college faculty, located at http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu.

CAS Blogs run on the powerful Wordpress Multi-User platform. They can be used publicly or privately; some of the current uses include:

• research
• faculty home pages
• departmental and program news
• discussion and collaboration
• course blogs and course websites
• student e-portfolios

Publishing to a blog is an excellent way to support and enhance course curricula since blogs support a variety of rich multimedia (such as movies, podcasts, slides, documents, mp3s, links to great resources, etc.) as well as interactivity, collaboration, and discussion.

Students can also be assigned to create or write to a course blog as part of course, or to respond to questions and comments posted by faculty or working groups. (Please note that students can only blog on the CAS blog platform as directed by faculty.)

Training is available in groups, in-class (for assisting students), and one-on-one. Please contact us with questions, feature requests, or for assistance.