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There have been seem really interesting things and new projects going on with The College Blogs this semester. We hope to create a directory in the future that lets you explore more blogs than are available on the front page. In the meantime, we are available for help, training, and feature requests.

The University of Mary Washington’s implementation of Wordpress Multi-User, UMW Blogs has been our inspiration in facilitating this project for the College. We also closely follow UMass Amherst Blogs for ideas as well.

For some great ideas and further inspiration for course-related uses, we’ve reproduced their list of faculty-led course blogs below:
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Art & Art History

• Professor JeanAnn Dabb’s Mosaics Exhibit
• Professor Marjorie Och’s Venice Seminar
• Professor Carole Garmon’s Sculpture I
• Prof. Rosemary Jesionowski’s Digital Approaches to Fine Art

Biology

• Professor Steve Gallik’s Online Laboratory and Digital Notebooks homepage for Cellular Biology
• Professor Michael Killian’s Biology 121 course blog

Chemistry

• Professor Kelli Slunt’s Freshman Seminar 100Bb: Kitchen Chemistry
• Professor Kelli Slunt’s Chemistry & Society

Classics, Philosophy, & Religion

• Professor Angela Gosetti’s FSEM 100B: The Journey to the Underworld in Greek Myth and Modern Film
• Professor Nina Mikhalevsky’s Ancient Greek Philosophy

Economics

• Professor Steve Greenlaw’s Economics 201
• Professor Steve Greenlaw’s Freshman Seminar: Globalization
• Professor Steve Greenlaw’s Economics 300

English, Linguistics, & Communication

• Professor Mara Scanlon’s Modern Poetry
• Professor Mara Scanlon’s Freshman Seminar: Ethics and Lit
• Professor John Morello’s Communication and the 2008 Presidential Campaign
• Professor Anand Rao’s Communication 205: Public Speaking
• Professor Anand Rao’s Communication 353: Visual Rhetoric
• Professor Tim O’Donnell’s Freshman Seminar: James Farmer and The Great Debaters
• Professor Tim O’Donnell’s Speech 209: Argumentation
• Professor Zachary Whalen The Virtual and the False
• Professor Zachary Whalen Forms of Narrative
• Professor Zachary Whalen Forms of Narrative

History & American Studies

• Prof. Sue Fernsebner’s Introduction to Historical Methods
• Professor Steve Harris’s Socialism: Theory and Practice
• Professor Steve Harris’s Stalin and Stalinism
• Prof. Jeff McClurken’s Freshman Seminar: Marching Home
• Professor Jeff McClurken’s U.S. History in Film
• Professor Krystyn Moon’s Consumerism Seminar

Modern Foreign Languages

• Professor Betsy Lewis’s Spanish Realism
• Professor Jeremy LaRochelle’s Ideas of Nature in Latin American Literature
• Professor Jeremy LaRochelle’s Spanish Composition and Spanish
• Professor Scott Power’s Contemporary France Seminar
• Professor Marcel Rotter’s German 399

Sociology

• Professor Kristin Marsh’s History of Social Theory

See Also:

Anthropology 104
http://blogs.umass.edu/anthro104-dk/

Astronomy 101
http://blogs.umass.edu/astron101-schneide/

Communication 397SS
http://blogs.umass.edu/comm397ss-jsaxe/

Journalism 392W
http://blogs.umass.edu/journal392w-bjroche/

Judaic Studies 390i
http://blogs.umass.edu/jud390i/

Kinesiology 530
http://blogs.umass.edu/kin530/

Physics 190E
http://blogs.umass.edu/physics190e-kastor/

Resources Economics 112
http://blogs.umass.edu/resec112/

Want to get your own course blog up and running? Please let us know!

Further Reading:

Getting Started with Blogging at Suffolk CAS

10 Ways to Use Blogs

Directory of UMass Blogs