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September 14, 2004
Back-to-School Blogging
Web logs help news students prepare for campus life.
Chronicle of Higher Education
September 3, 2004
http://www.chronicle.com/infotech/
Free, Web-based tools like Xanga and LiveJournal, which allow users to easily create their own blogs, have attracted a large following among high-school and college students. At institutions like Davidson, enterprising students have used the popularity of the medium to create thriving communities in which incoming freshmen meet to exchange practical questions, personal information, movie recommendations, and jokes.Administrators say the sites constitute an important new trend: Students who grow up using the Web as a social tool can now ask their peers, instead of college officials, for counseling on the process of preparing for college. The colleges are't about to get rid of their orientation sessions, but officials say freshmen who use the Internet for college planning may become more self-reliant students.
Resources:
This article: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v51/i02/02a03501.htm (Subscription required)
Davidson Student Weblog: http://www.livejournal.com/community/davidsoncollege
LiveJournal: http://www.livejournal.com/
Xanga, the weblog community: http://www.xanga.com/
YahooGroups, supporting student created discussion groups at University of Washington in St. Louis, http://groups.yahoo.com
Posted by sjc at September 14, 2004 11:01 AM
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