And I had to give myself a hearty slap upside the head as I’ve been reading PomeRantz for a couple years now. Should’ve mentioned that one from the start.

Perhaps it is time I revisit this and make a list so folks don’t have to wade through the comments. My only hangup (besides time) is one person’s blogging LIS educator is another person’s some-other-topic blogger.

Ah, fuzzy categories, they do wonders for a classificationist’s heart.

I’d also mention Linda Braun, who teaches with me at Simmons GSLIS (she’s at both the Boston and MHC campuses, while I’ve taught for 5 years at “GSLIS West”). She blogs & podcasts frequently over at YALSA http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/

But I agree, it is slim pickings; even slimmer if you focus only on full-time LIS faculty bloggers.

But for now I want to encourage all forms of LIS educators to blog and hopefully use a portion of their blogging for discussing some of the things Richard mentions.

Karin, that looks like an interesting blog and I’d love to join the conversation about writing tools but from the perspective of trying to acquire metadata and embed metadata (COinS) in my blog posts.

My tools work but are clumsy as hell! As for thinking of my “writing implements” as tools I fear I don’t generally think about them at all. [le sigh]

Unfortunately, just another of those many things that I am immensely interested in but cannot afford to be at this moment.

I’ve posted a reply here. and look forward to continuing the conversation.

Anyway, on to the topic of your post: I have mildly suggested to a few of my teachers that they might try blogging, which was met with responses like “where would I find the time” and “I just don’t do that.” Some of them are truly busy people- I am convinced one professor in particular is actually twins because she does SO MUCH. However, since I’m a distance student, I really crave the conversations that the on campus students get to have with the teachers. I take online classes with students that are in the same place as the teacher, and I can tell the difference- I think being able to read and comment on a teachers blog would be an enormous help.