UW-Green Bay now offers a Blogging Service powered by WordPress. The links on the left are current blogs at UW-Green Bay, take a look and see how people are using blogs.

Blogs can be used for a variety of projects:

• In courses to encourage discussion and debate.
• Student assignments
• Publishing new ideas and areas of research to a much wider audience.
• Newsletter, or a faculty group blog to keep everyone up to date on departmental matters.
• Shared governance information.
• University wide conversations

For more information on how faculty from around the world are using blogs check out this Chronicle of Higher Education article: Scholars Who Blog.

Getting started

To setup a blog you will need to email the University Webmaster at cs_www@uwgb.edu providing the following information:

• the purpose of the blog
• title of the blog
• who will be responsible for the blog

Once the blog has been approved and setup you will receive instructions on how to customize your blog and get it going.