Documentation:CTLT Instructional Technologies/Blogs

Blogs

Blogs are increasingly touted for their potential to foster online interaction and resource sharing in the field of education. They support a wide range of applications as a simple online publishing system, as personal and collaborative knowledge management tools, and to support instruction. Quite simply, blogs offer a means to easily narrate your work online. Hundreds of bloggers at UBC are exploiting the simplicity and flexibility of their tools for a wide range of uses:

• instructors use them to communicate with their students;
• researchers track their progress and communicate with peers around the world; and
• project managers post updates and documents.

UBC Blogs

The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology hosts the CWL-enabled UBC Blogs at blogs.ubc.ca. It is available to all members of the UBC community including students, faculty and staff. UBC Blogs run on WordPress Multi-Site and are typically being used as complementary course space, ePortfolio/blog and small group or community space. We can also network multiple blogs for easier management and enhanced interaction amongst groups (such as a course full of students).

For more information, visit the UBC Blogs.

Web Development with WordPress

CTLT also uses WordPress Multi-Site as its primary web development platform and Content Management System.

For more information, please visit the Web Services section.