Since becoming an art student at FSU I’ve been noticing a lot of my professors using blogs and websites to relay messages to students. This semester I am taking Intro To Web Design and we have our own online community that is powered through Wordpress but looks a lot like Facebook. It has members, we can post in a feed, send message to one another, and more. Which is SO awesome. It really gives the students a chance (in total about 200, some online and some go to an actual classroom myself included) to interact with one another as well as the teacher’s assistance to get help. This became apparent last night. I logged on the website to find some fellow classmates struggling with our current HTML5 project I logged in the chatroom and myself and another student tried to help others. Eventually everything was fixed and they were able to finish their assignment and submit 
This is why I like the web community, it has so many benefits.
Also for my Web Design class our first project to had to build and have to maintain our own Wordpress blog. Being that I have been using Wordpress for years I found it pretty easy to use 
Mine is located a Veroicone.wordpress.com, we have to post certain things on it as well as our projects for the whole semester. It’s fun to use since I’ve only used wordpress on my own site instead of using their server.
I am also taking Graphic Design 3 which focuses on video/sound and my professor also has a blog that is ran through Wordpress 
He also recently made it so that students have access to posting on it as well which is fun. I definitely like Wordpress in the classroom and if I ever decided to teach I would probably set up a blog or website of some sort for my students. For those that are current students or have been have any of your professors set up blogs or websites? If so did you like it? If not would it be something you’d want to partake in?
Welcome to Artsie.me, a personal blog owned by a 26 year-old graphic design graduate named 
We have one for work. All updates throughout the day are posted on there and people can comment on it if they want.
None of our professors use blogs. They just email us because they know that none of us would ever check it because we’re lazy. Actually, the professors just order the TAs to email things to us, and to update a simple HTML web page.
It’s awesome when online hobbies help you out a bit, isn’t it? Mine helped me get a summer job when I was a freshman because I knew a little bit of PHP.
I had a film professor last summer who set up a blog for the class to discuss the films we watched. I think it’s easier for students (myself included sometimes) to have discussions in text instead of in class and it definitely showed in the comments. More time for people to think their words through and people speaking up who wouldn’t if everyone was staring at them.
Unfortunately, she was the only one. Only one of my professors at my new school even uses Blackboard (just to host the syllabus). The others struggle with setting up the projector or ban tech from their classrooms entirely.
My sister, who is in 7th grade uses something called emodo (something like that). She loves it, it has a facebook looking interface and she puts her writing assignments on there for her teacher to grade. She’s suppose to do it while in school but she can also use it outside of school.