One of the goals of my learning contract was to improve intra-college communication by setting up and using a blog and wiki site on the college portal. This has been achieved and both sites are available for viewing from here (BLT Blog and BLT Wiki). These sites are password protected so I have copied them to Word. Some formatting has been lost in this process.
Each site serves a different purpose. The Blog site is used tobring technology news to the college staff and to make it easily available to the staff. for this purpose, I have set up an RSS feed allowing selected, educational blogs to bring up-to-date information to the staff on a regular basis. I also use the blog site to introduce a topic for conversation, a new and useful piece of software etc.
The wiki site is an area where I introduce aspects of future college policy or college issues and ask for contributions by staff. I am also using this area for professional development-related materials.
To date, neither site has been well subscribed, despite constant reference via email. However, one faculty has picked up the idea of blogging and set up a class blog with great success.
