Blogging And Learning

I remember a conversation with a friend who doesn't blog. He is a professional and feels blogging is not needed for most professions. I mentioned an article I had read that said blogging could be a useful tool for librarians. (Mainly because of the need to share ideas in a timely way).

I remembered this conversation when I found a blog called MISt it up! The blogger, Alex, is a student in the Faculty Of Information Studies at the University Of Toronto.

The website for the program says:

Reflecting the expanding role of the profession, FIS incorporated three diverse, though related disciplines within a single graduate program, namely: library and information science, archives and records management, and information systems.

Alex is in Library and Information Studies stream. MISt it up! was created for a course with a section on blogging. The course outline says: "Set up Blog (www.blogger.com) and comment on others' blogs".

Here we see a professional program at an accredited university encouraging students to blog. Our hobby is finding a space in mainstream academia. What's more it is being used as it was meant to be used. Not for profit (ie: business blogs) but for sharing information and interesting ideas.

I commented in the blog and mentioned this blog. I also looked at some of the other class blogs. It will be interesting to see how many of the students keep blogging. It will be interesting to see what blogs evolve.