Using the whole toolkit. I ran across a music theory course taught at Oakland University that uses web pages, blog, wiki, Web CT discussion forum, podcasts , and more -- more balls juggled at one time than I've managed to do so far, that's for sure. According to the podcast's listing at iTunes, under education, the teacher is Alex Ruthmann. Because we're all still piecing things together here with different software tools, we find appropriate adaptions being made, such as the instruction from the teacher to users of the wiki to leave their name on any of their contributions so they get credit for their work. A few years from now, though.... [0 & P]

The Greensboro blogging conference. I see that the panel list for ConvergeSouth, the October 7-8 blogging conference in Greensboro, would make a strong table of contents for a very fine book on the current state of (primarily non-educational) blogging:

How to blog for practicing journalists and journalism educators
International Coverage - Traditional and Nontraditional Means
Voices of Iraq - Military Blogging & Reporting
The new nature of knowledge
Blogs: The future of journalism?
Blogging and community building
Where's the business model going?
Ethics: What are the rules? Meshing new technology with journalistic values
Adding more voices to the conversation
Policing the Media
Creative branding on blogs
Faith Blogging
Video Blogging
Collaboration
Local Politics
Tools & the future
Local Online Alt Media
International Community
Podcasting
Using the Web creatively for political activism
Blogging from the outside [0 & P]