Recently I was asked for information on blogs associated with abroad programs. I’m posting the information here in case it is useful to anyone else. It’s just a few links that came to mind. I know there are many others and I will post them when I remember them. Please, also, post them in the comments if you know of any.
Student blogging from abroad, in a structured manner, is common. What is less common is innovative or pedagogically sound uses of it. There is a very interesting project supported by National Geographic called Glimpse. This is a user-generated, professionally edited website in which students and others post blogs, images, travel tips, etc. In addition to the site, there is a magazine that you can pick up a newsstands here and there. It’s a handsome, glossy publication.
One of the earliest projects of this sort (2005-2006) that I am aware of was the Blogging the World project involving Middlebury, Haverford and Dickinson.
Some International Education offices use a blog for practical reasons, simply to post news, such as this from my undergraduate alma mater, VCU.
Others, like Bucknell, consolidate student postings into a central blog.
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There are some study abroad podcasts, too. Here’s the Japan Study Abroad podcast.
I haven’t listened to it because I don’t speak Japanese, so I can’t tell you what is it about.
Here are Pacific University’s Study Abroad Podcasts.
There are more study abroad podcasts in the iTunes podcast directory, if you go to iTunes and simply search on “study abroad.”
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Glimpse – Your Stories From Abroad
This is an interesting site, supported largely by National Geographic. It’s composed of user-generated content, but it is professionally edited which, to be honest, I find to be a nice balance.
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