Labor & Employment Law

Blogs As A Teaching Tool

By Harvey Randall, Esq.

Blogs As A Teaching Tool
Reproduced with permission. Copyright © 2008, Mitchell H. Rubinstein, Esq., Adjunct Professor of Law, St. Johns Law School and New York Law School, All rights reserved.

I just came across McBlogmick a blog run by Cumberland Law School Professor Marcia McCormick. Professor McCormick is also a Contributing Editor on Workplace Prof Blog. Professor McCormick appears to use her blog to post a series of lesson podcasts, make class announcements, administrative announcements such a change in office hours and, most importantly as repository to upload documents. It appears that students can organize this material into their own folders.

Not only is this a wonderful idea for teaching, but it also gives perspective future students an idea about the class and about the professor. I think Professor McCormick just might be on to something here.

Mitchell H. Rubinstein

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[NOTE: You can access Prof. McCormick?s blog at

http://mcblogmick.classcaster.org/blog/employment_law

-- a link to this site has been added to the sidebar of NYPPL (look for: Employment Law Blog) for the convenience of readers wishing to access it in the future. Professor McCormick?s blog was created as a part of CALI?s (Computer Assisted Learning Institute) podcasting project. Information on the CALI project can be found at http://www.classcaster.org -- HR]

Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on May 06, 2008 (boomark / email).