A new (to me) example of blogs in the HigherEd classroom, in this batch of links.   Jane Gibson Natt, Assistant Professor, in the Department of Communication at Purdue University is using blogs in her Advanced Newswriting (COM462) class this semester.  Great to see this happening.

Also, we have more examples of colleges and universities using weblogs in marketing (recruitment efforts) from a Chicago Tribune article (via Bloggers Blog).

• Advanced Newswriting
  ” Welcome to the blog world COM462 students It’s fun, it’s easy, it’s for 15 percente of your grade ”
  (tags: classroom+blogging CMS blogs highered)
• Jane’s Journalism Blog
  Faculty blog for Purdue’s COM462 syllabus and posts/comments.
  (tags: classroom+blogging CMS blogs HigherEd)
• Bloggers Blog: Universities Hiring Student Bloggers to Describe Life on Campus
  (tags: college+blogs recruiting admissions)
• Too much JavaScript
  Very important post, actually. The Firefox NoScript extention has driven home the reality of Javascript reliance on too many Web pages. It is a problem, I believe.
  (tags: java javascript Web+Design data+mining)
• Former Student’s Digital Portfolio
  Here is Diana’s digital portfolio. This is a good example of a student using freely available opensource templates to create a valuable online presence for job searches.
  (tags: resume portfolio digital+portfolio)
• Marketing Research Association Executive Director Predicts Dramatic Growth for Online Marketing Research in 2006 and Beyond; Profession Must Adapt to Transformative Advances in Technology, Forces of Globalization
  Press Release: “Online research is surging, and within the next few years is likely to become the most common form of all marketing research fieldwork conducted,” predicted Brownell.” (Larry Brownell, executive director of the Marketing Research Associat
  (tags: MRA MR marketing+research online+research)