In2Uni progress: blogging for community outreach

In2Uni is an innovative community engagement project that seeks to raise the profile of tertiary education within selected local high schools in the Illawarra South East Region. It partners later year Journalism students from Faculty of Creative Arts with student cohorts from Years 7 – 12. Our students mentor the high school students and do a special project with them as part of this. There were visits to each of the schools back in March, and since then each cohort are beavering away on their projects – which vary depending on the age of the students. The blogs are private to each group, so we can’t show you inside, but here’s a snapshot of their usage. Thanks to Tara Loty (Co-ordinator) for agreeing to share these statistics on the number of new posts and comments per blog over the last few months.

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July-August blogging system stats

System-wide Stats for Blog use in the last MONTH:
New Posts: 722
New Comments: 146
Number of Active users: 179
Updated blogs: 21

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A look at 2010

Taking a step back and looking at the year that was for UOW Blogs. 2010 saw the take of blogging in and outside classrooms. The user activity we notice spikes in August, no doubt when final posts were due.

 

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113 active blogs… and rising….

In2UniYr9_May30Since the beginning of the year, the uptake of UOW blogs has increased and now we have: 101 teaching blogs (including 91 student/class blogs), 6 blogs for research groups or projects, and 7 blogs to communicate and engage with local communities. In the latter category is the In2Uni project, which has UOW students mentoring c300 local high-school students from years 7 – 12 and using a blog (one for each of the different school years) to keep the conversation going when the UOW mentors are not visiting the schools.

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Thinking of using a blog for an assessment?

Take a tip from one of our more experienced bloggers. Here’s Chris Moore from Arts post – a guide to better blogging and blog marking criteria.

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Research And Project Blogs

As Part of RaID’s initiative to promote UOW research and and researchers in a social media context, the Research Services Office (RSO) is currently creating a Research Blog for UOW Researchers, which will enable a more extensive profile of UOW research (both nationally and internationally). We are also creating private project & research group blogs purely for the individuals in various projects & research projects. If you would like to join in the pilot and try a blog, contact us at it-innovation@uow.edu.au.

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Blogging Communication Students

Students currently taking the Methods in Digital Communications Research (DIGC102) are participating in blogging with Edublogs campus. Blogging on this WordPress platform is allowing students to creatively and easily meet course requirements and graduate outcomes.

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Technology in My Day

Sharing technology exploits across the UOW community and the world. This is an initiative to improve communication and build a community of practice.

Want to join? email it-innovation@uow.edu.au for an account.

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Welcome!

We’ve currently got nearly 90 pilot blogs up and running.

There’s a class of 65 undergraduate Arts students each with their own “Field Notes research” blogs, as well as a handful of blogs to support staff research groups and project groups.

Our current Blog in Focus is the eTeaching Upgrade 2010 blog – click on the picture (left) to check out how staff can provide feedback and dialogue with other staff about our plans for upgrading all UoW staff and students to a common online communications and collaboration platform.

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