Well, not the entire university, I guess, but a number of online publications use it. The newspaper is featured above, their CIO has a blog, and they’ve started a pilot with WPMU to offer blogging to everybody in the University.

Posted November 19, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: blogging, higher ed, higher education, innovative uses of WordPress, McGill University, wordpress. 12 Comments.

Michael Stephens is now using WordPress MU to host his classes online, and that opening page is really sweet. It’s hardly the first time somebody’s used a blog to host course content, but I like where he’s going with it. We’re significantly expanding our use of WordPress at Plymouth, and using it to replace WebCT/Blackboard [...]

Posted September 9, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: academic technology, BlackBoard, courseware, education, higher ed, innovative uses of WordPress, michael stephens, WebCT, wordpress, WordPressMU. 4 Comments.

Back in August Educated Nation offered the following top ten list of web tools for college students:

Writely
Soundslides
Bluedot.Us
eFax
PDF Online
Google Calendar
Google Spreadsheets
Bloglines
Technorati
mynoteIT

Not to be outdone, an anonymous-but-first-person story at Nextstudent identifies their top ten:

Book Finder
MynoteIT
Ottobib
Google Docs
Tada List
Meebo
Wikipedia
Zoho Show
Google Reader
Del.icio.us

best websites, college students, higher ed, students, top ten

Posted February 18, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: best websites, college students, higher ed, students, top ten. Be the first one.