First up, it’s quite possible to maintain a sense of branding, while at the same time allowing individuality in blog design. You can allow your users as many or as few themes as you like – and control to what degree they are customized as the master admin of the site.

Uses can use widgets, as you can see in the sidebar – these could cover such things as seminars or lecture dates and schedules, or links to relevant course materials.

Of course, a blog can be scholarly or used for teaching, or both – in fact, once a user has a username, it’s extremely easy for them to set up as many blogs as they want – for different classes or different purposes.

Finally, for this example, it’s also extremely easy for academics to integrate videos, podcasts or any other media into their site – in order to share it with their peers or students.

For example:

Make sure you write notes as you watch the videos as we will be discussing them in next week’s tutorial class! More importantly leave a comment on this post on any aspect you don’t understand so I can make sure I cover it in the session.