CALPER Uniblogs

As part of its service to language teachers and professionals, CALPER hosts blogs for a variety of language-related educational activities. These range from educators wishing to use a blog format to disseminate information to students participating in their courses, to students collaboratively authoring blogs as thematically oriented “newspapers”, to students use of blogs as online journals where they can share experiences, submit homework, and importantly, view and socially participate in a dialogue spread across the many student blogs.

This service is free, and is provided to institutions lacking the infrastructural or technological support required to sustain blogging activities. In addition, CALPER offers consulting expertise to institutions wishing to develop locally such an infrastructure within their own network. This consulting ranges from technological assistance in the selection and installation of blog (and other CMC) tools, to pedagogical development seminars provided for educators and other language professionals.

CALPER’s blogs have full unicode support, enabling their use across multiple languages, including non-Latin based character sets (for more on Unicode, please see CALPER’s UniWiki, or visit the Unicode Consortium’s Unicode Site.)

Inquiries into having CALPER host blogs for you or your language classroom can be directed to Arlo Bensinger at: ajb102@psu.edu.