Session 1

Blogging Your Course

Session Description:

Course blogs are an alternative to WebCT and Moodle. They can offer great resources for students and colleagues, but they don’t always work. Crawford Kilian offers some do’s and don’ts for blogging educators.

For a preview: http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/250 and http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/cedar

Presenter: Crawford Kilian

Crawford Kilian has published 20 books and hundreds of articles and columns.

Born in the US, Crawford grew up in the US and Mexico. He and his wife Alice moved to Vancouver in 1967. Both launched careers in education, with Crawford also publishing children’s books, novels, textbooks, regional history, and books on education issues.

His most recent book is Writing for the Web 3.0 (Self-Counsel Press, 2006), a handbook for Web content developers. He has talked to educators and webwriters from Nova Scotia to Michigan to Alberta, as well as in Brazil.

For several years he has blogged about topics that interest him, from writing fiction (http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/fiction/) to English usage (http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/english/) to bird flu (http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/).

Crawford lives in North Vancouver, teaches at Capilano College, and has plans for many more books. His current project is a second edition of Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia, scheduled for publication on the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Blacks in the 1858 gold rush. (His blog on the book is at http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/pioneers/ )