Research blogging
Posted on October 22, 2002 @ 22:23 in Research
In two months I'll be teaching again, this time a 'research seminar', where a small group of students will go from formulating a research question, to writing a research proposal, to actually doing the research and finally reporting on it, all in three months time. They'll be working together in groups of three or four students on this project and I figured that it would be an interesting experiment to have them work together through a group-blog. I talked to the people who have to authorise these kinds of things, but the main problem turned out to be getting a suitable server from the IT dept.
At the moment the IT dept. is trying to restructure their server park and is consolidating on a Windows/Cold Fusion platform. For many, but mainly organisational reasons it's not easy for them to just set up another server that runs Perl and/or PHP. Some active people are still looking into this, but as a back-up plan I asked my friendly neighborhood webhoster what it would cost to host the site with them for a year, and got quoted a very friendly price. The good news is that I got permission to set up my educational group-blog externally, yeey! I'll talk to the IT people this week and see if they can set it up on one of the dept. servers, but if not, I'm going to set it up myself and host it externally. I'm really looking forward to the experiment!
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Ok, you will probably not read this (unless MP got some 'recently comments' function), but setting up another server with perl and PHP is of course EASY!
Now a more interesting question;
How did it go with the group-blogs?Posted by Rune B on July 09, 2003 @ 16:27
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