A New Day A New Blog

Using Blogger made setting up this blog so very easy. This is not the first blog I have created; but it is most likely the first that I will continuously post to! This will also be my first blogging experience within the context of an online course. I'm an eager and willing participant! I'm hopeful that I will continue to post to this blog long after this course ends, and that my students will find some value in its contents.

I enjoyed Henry Jenkins' take on academic blogging. He and his students use blogging to post their ongoing work, to seek collaboration and get their messages out their in real time. What a great way to expand your research base and at the same time get the most current data. The fact that many businesses latched on to the blogs as a way of keeping current, and actually creating in-house positions for some of the academic bloggers was outstanding. Job creation at its best! With so many students graduating from college - at both the undergrad and graduate level - with no jobs, it was gratifying to hear something positive.

I found it interesting that many of the incoming students were already very familiar with the media-studies program because they had been following the blog. It would seem that given their familiarity with the program, integration would be pretty easy when they arrived in the fall to begin their studies. Another plus was that graduates of the program would continue to be involved through their interactions online.

I'm looking forward to learning more about emerging technologies with my classmates. I'll keep you posted...