What is this?
This is the University of Wollongong blogging service. Blogging can support and encourage innovation and collaboration between UOW staff and students and their teaching, learning, and researching external partners.

What is a blog?
A blog (short for weblog) is a website where a writer (or writers) posts commentary, links, images and other media. It is arranged chronologically and ideally should be updated frequently.
Most blogs also include a comment facility that allows readers to post their comments on individual pieces written for the blog. The effect of this is to create dialogue and conversation around topics of common interest.

Who uses it?
Only a staff or student member of UOW can be a Blog Administrator to manage or run a blog. But the idea is that any legitimate teaching, learning or research partners can be enrolled in your blog. Blogs are about encouraging communities of common practice or interest. Some are about keeping a small group together for the purposes of completing a specific project. Others are encourage discussion around a broader set of related topics – such as Health and Medical research, or Language and Literacy in education. Blogs are typically password protected (using your regular UOW login details) but they can also be open to the public in certain situations. Each blog will typically have a small group of people who actively author posts, and a larger group who may read and sometimes comment. You can have your blog settings such that all posts and comments are moderated before publication – which is useful if your blog is open to all to read.
If you would like to get a UOW blog please fill in this online form on the “Request a Blog!” page.

How does it work?
We use the expert provider “edublogs campus” to host our Blogging service. Edublogs service is built on a particular blogging platform called WordPress MU (multi-user). If you have used WordPress for blogging, it will be familiar to you. Some of its features are:

• editing of blogs through a browser
• discussion through comments and trackbacks
• post categorisation
• RSS feeds

To find out more visit the WordPress tutorials websites or the website of the edublogs campus service.