At the beginning of the spring semester, I noted that the Political Communication Seminar at the University of Virginia and the English 12 course at UNC-Chapel Hill were making use of blogs in their course work, and were using Framing Science as a shining example!
Here at American University, the School of Communication has created a page highlighting just a few of the many examples of how blogging technology is being incorporated into the curriculum for students majoring in journalism, strategic communication, and film. Check it out.
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The broader question about how to best incorporate blogs into the academic scholarship stream and how to account for the value of contributions in the academic reward system is a common one:
Just one example: "How Can We Best Use Blogs? Help Please!", a 2/22/07 post on "Cosmic Variance", a physics and astrophysics blog, with some 28 comments to date.
http://cosmicvariance.com/2007/02/11/how-can-we-best-use-blogs-help-ple…
Not blogging, but another part of this evolving information technology:
On "William J. Polley: Comments and observations on economics and whatever else catches my eye" blog February 21, 2007 "Is Wikipedia an acceptable source for college papers?"
(His answer - no, but very useful as a starting point)
linked from the "Economics Roundtable" aggregator blog.