"Educational Blogging" by Stephen Downes
Lots of general background and intros to many tools available in 2004, with specific examples of higher ed use of blogs.  E.g.,
"First, teachers use blogs to replace the standard class Web page. Instructors post class times and rules, assignment notifications, suggested readings, and exercises. ...
"Second, ...instructors begin to link to Internet items that relate to their course. and ..short essays directed specifically toward his students...not mere annotations of interesting links...
"Third, blogs are used to organize in-class discussions. ...students get to know each other better by visiting and reading blogs from other students. They discover, in a non-threatening way, their similarities and differences. The student who usually talks very loud in the classroom and the student who is very timid have the same writing space to voice their opinion...
"Fourth, some instructors are using blogs to organize class seminars and to provide summaries of readings...“group blogs”—that is, individual blogs authored by a group of people...
"Finally, fifth, students may be asked to write their own blogs as part of their course grade....students read a chunk of a book and post two paragraphs of their thoughts on the reading.
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"The process of reading online, engaging a community, and reflecting it online is a process of bringing life into learning. "

EDUCAUSE REVIEW, vol. 9, no. 5, September/October 2004, pp. 14-16, 18,
20-22, 24, 26
<<http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0450.asp>>
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"The Educated Blogger: Using Weblogs to Promote Literacy in the Classroom" by David Huffaker
"This paper explores the role of Weblogs ...in classroom settings. Blogs, which resemble personal journals or diaries and provide an online venue where self–expression and creativity is encouraged and online communities are built, provide an excellent opportunity for educators to advance literacy through storytelling and dialogue. This paper explores the importance of literacy and storytelling in learning, and then juxtaposes these concepts with the features of blogs. The paper also reviews examples of blogs in practice."
<<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_6/huffaker/index.html>>

"Blog As A Teaching Tool," (by Mohamed Taher) in blog " Information Visualization" as of 9/28/2006 at:
<<http://akbani.blogspot.com/2006/05/blog-as-teaching-tool.html>>
NOTE:  Be prepared for a long, slow loading of the first page... lots of resources!

Steve's Genealogy Blog (by Stephen Danko):
<<http://stephendanko.com/blog/>>   [Provided by Drew Smith, So. Fla. Univ. - 6/13/2006]

News, Miami-Dade College Kendall Campus Library, Blogger Blog used as Simple Newsletter:
<<http://kendallcampuslibrarynews.blogspot.com/>>

Intro for future teachers to some ideas for educational uses for Blogs and Wikis
- really clear, simple well-organized materials and links from Rhonda Berger of Miami-Dade College
http://www.rwlo.org/users/3372/Collaborative%20Website/overview.html

"Blogs: A Disruptive Technology Coming of Age?" By Phillip D. Long
<<http://syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6774>>

Weblogg-ed, maintained by Will Richardson
<<http://www.weblogg-ed.com/about>>

"Serendip ...an expanding forum and a continually developing set of resources..." Interesting similarities and intentional differences from most blogs - co-founded by Paul Grobstein
<<http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/>>

From Sarah Roberts of Duke U. <<sarah.r@duke.edu>>
http://www.campus-technology.com/article.asp?id=7982
"Campus Communications & the Wisdom of Blogging" by Sarah Roberts. 
One of the first articles on the implementation of blogging in the higher education space, with lots of suggestions about possible future instructions uses of blogs.
Sarah T. Roberts, Academic Technology Services, Office of Information Technology, Duke University, Box 90258, Durham, NC 27708, 919 668 5289

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John Ottenhoff, Interim Assistant Provost, Chair and Professor, Department of English, Alma College, Alma, MI 48801;  phone: 989.463.7138;  fax: 989.463.7717
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Link to home page of Ray Schroeder where you can find 3 often-updated blogs and more:
Online Learning Update, Education Technology, and Techno-News

"Collaboration, Literacy Practices and Authorship: Using Social Networking Tools to Explore the Wisdom of Crowds," By Joe Moxley and Ryan T. Meehan
http://teachingwiki.org/default.aspx/TeachingWiki/CollaborationLiteracyAuthorship.html
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From Rob Walker of U. of East Anglia <<rob.walker@uea.ac.uk>>

From Nils Peterson of <<nils_peterson@wsu.edu>>

Washington State has launched an enterprise blog tool as a result of work in the Center for Teaching Learning and Technology on next generation online learning tools. My perspective on blogging is around a key limitation we have seen in online learning environments -- the text created by authors is locked within the space where it was created (in effect, the author loses control of the text). We are interested in trans-course learning and having authors lose access to their work thwarts our interest. Blogging gives authors ownership. What we are now exploring is how the author can "permission" the blog post to appear within a course discussion space -- thereby having the best of both worlds -- class discussion and retained ownership.
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Brief intro to Blogs as "Collaborative Publishing" <<http://library.med.utah.edu/navigator/module4/blogs.htm>> within a Web-delivered information literacy course called "Internet Navigator" - developed by a team of librarians from academic libraries in Utah based on the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and other documents.

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Very introductory info about blogging in general and tools, software for beginners
<<http://weblogs.about.com/od/weblogsbasics/>>