Just-in-Time Blogging

This page provides information about the article “Blogs and wikis as instructional tools: A social software implementation of Just-in-Time Teaching” by J.A. Higdon and myself. This article appeared in the journal College Teaching (vol. 57, no. 2, Spring 2009, pp. 105 - 109).

To download a preprint of the article in .pdf format, click here.

Here is the sample HTML code referenced in our article. This code can be placed in a stand alone .html file.

Replace the relevant fields below with your students’ first and last names, and the addresses of their blogs. In this example, you see a block of code repeated twice. With the correct information replaced, this would aggregate the blogs of two students. You can copy and paste the block of code as many times as you need and fill in the first name, last name, and blog address for each student in your class.

The fundamental block of code was generated using the feed2js service; please see that site for more information, especially if you are interested in changing the specifics of the aggregation that is performed (for instance, the number of most recent entries to aggregate).

<html>

<head>

<title>Blogs for COURSE TITLE</title>

</head>

<body>

<b>LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME</b><br/>

<b>LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME</b><br/>

</body>

</html>