1) Blogs@Baruch is a blogging platform at Baruch College that has been active for 2.5 years, has 6700 users and 1450 sites, with over 200,000 visits and 650,000 pageviews last semester. 2) The blogging platform allows for open, scalable and flexible blog sites. Posts are displayed chronologically and may include comments and media with password protection. Pages are static content that can also include comments, media and password protection in a hierarchical structure. 3) Additional features include categories to organize posts hierarchically, tags for folksonomical indexing of posts, and RSS feeds to push and pull content. The blogging platform is

1. Teaching on Blogs@Baruch
Faculty Development Workshop at Baruch College

2. Statistics
Active 2.5 years
6700 users
1450 sites
200+k visits/ 650k pageviews last
semester

3. Blogs Sites
Open
Scalable
Flexible

4. some keywords

5. Posts
chronological
+/- comments
media
password protection
archiveable via date/authors/categories/tags

6. Pages
static
+/- comments
media
password protection
hierarchical

7. Categories
every post, 1+
hierarchical
admins/editors may create
taxonomical/table of contents

8. Tags
every post, 0+
hierarchical
authors may create
folksonomical/index

9. RSS
pull/push content

10. some models
photo from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/teojpg/3954918502/

11. Dialogic Close Reading
Performance of Knowledge

12. Concerning Paradise Lost Prof. Paula Berggren
discussion of
selected simile on a
page student
authors post
that
integrates
web sources,
builds on
discussion
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/eng4160/

13. Content Area Literacy

14. Tomasello’s Capstone Prof. Andrew Tomasello
faculty member lectures
students respond
dialogue
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/tomasello

15. Collaborative Knowledge Building
Blog =
+ Wiki
Bliki

16. Happiness South Asian Religion
Prof. Erica Kaufman Prof. Carla Bellamy
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/happiness2010/lexicon/ http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/southasianreligion/term-list-wiki/

17. Peer Review
Scaffolding
Exhibit Space

18. Capturing Communities in Words and
Images Prof. Roz Bernstein and Prof. Fran Antmann
practice
share
develop
display
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/capturingcommunities/

19. Flexible Aesthetic

20. Designing with Computer Animation
Prof. Zoe Sheehan Saldana
student-designed rotating
header
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/art3059spring2009/

21. MultiModal Scaffolding

22. English 2100 & 2150
Prof. Erica Kaufman Prof. Shelly Eversley
proposal
research
digital essay
process write
final paper

23. Etc.
Setting up
Importing users
Integrating media
Bringing sites into classroom

24. http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu
Email: lucas.waltzer@baruch.cuny.edu
Twitter: @lwaltzer