In May of this year, Wesleyan University hosted a demonstration of Web 2.0 technologies for university students, faculty, and staff. Dubbed "Web 2.0 Expo," it covered not only blogs but also podcasts, wikis, social bookmarking, RSS feeds, and such like. One of the Expo's major purposes was to introduce members of the campus community to these new technologies, but a second --- and equally important --- objective was to gather feedback and which of these technologies people most wanted. Based on that feedback, the university's IT staff spent the summer developing software and instructional support to facilitate the creation of blogs hosted at the wesleyan.edu domain. There are more details in the Wesleyan Argus. See also this post from the Web 2.0 Expo listing 10 ways to use a blog for university business, which includes linked examples.
Wesleyan isn't alone in providing in-house support. The University of Texas' Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment provides one-on-one consulting to faculty members who want to use blogs in the classroom. Penn State's Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) program has an online blog primer and offers PSU-hosted blogs to faculty and administrators. Michigan State has a Blogs for Learning page.
I'll send out some e-mails and see who responds; details to follow.
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