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As readers of my main blog will know, I spent Friday at the Australian Blogging Conference at QUT's Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane.  It was a fabulous, stimulating and intellectually rich conference and a great end to Tama's-month-o-conferencing.  I was the facilitator for the 'Blogging and Education' session so thought, in ...

As part of Teaching Month (which, to be honest, is ''Teaching 17 Days'' but that just sounded naff on flyers and banners), the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is running a group blog in which a number of academics, professional staff and at least one student are exploring the place of blogs and blogging in higher education.  ...

In exploring the role of participatory media forms in higher eduction, media scholar Henry Jenkins recently penned an article entitled ''From YouTube to YouNiversity'' for the Chronicle of Higher Education. It's a great read, but this passage particularly caught my attention: Blogs represent a powerful tool for engaging in these larger public ...

Here are some suggestions of blogs to illustrate how postgrads and academics are using blogging. Feedback is welcome ... A few good postgraduate and early career academic blogs: Thoughts from Kansas / Joshua Rosenau, USA ''A graduate student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas by day, an activist by ...