Class Websites and Blogs

Have you ever wanted to create a blog or website for your class? Think a website could be a great way for students to complete a course assignment? We have experience supporting Blogger, Google Sites, Omeka and Wordpress. We've also supported projects housed on Digital Kenyon in collaboration with Jenna Nolt in LBIS. We try to focus on tools are easy to use and robust enough to set up aesthetically pleasing, collaborative blogs and websites for whatever you might need.

Resources for Getting Started

View video explainer of Blogger and Google Sites available: youtu.be/83Rn4ao24DM.

View a Google Site that summarizes each tool (Blogger and Google Sites) to help determine which is the best fit for a project here: sites.google.com/kenyon.edu/bloggerandgsites/home.

Looking for Inspiration?

We have many examples of class projects that have been housed on class-designed websites that we'd be happy to share upon request. Here are a few that we have permission to share more directly:

Socialism at the Movies is a web resource that examines the history of the Soviet Union and the post-1945 German and Eastern European socialist states with a concentration on films made in these countries, as well as films made elsewhere or later about life under state socialism. Students made micro-documentaries about some of these films and there is a list of films as well. A student in this class used Weebly to create it and you can view the website here: socialismatthemovies.weebly.com.
Script Ohio: The Ohio Writers Project is a web exhibit that looks at five Ohio writers: Sherwood Anderson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Dean Howells, Toni Morrison and James Wright. Students traveled to notable places to explore the lives of these authors and created micro-documentaries on each one. This website was made using Omeka and can be viewed here: scriptohio.kenyoncip.org.
Becoming: First Gen and Latinx Experiences centers on personal experience as a subject of analysis and as a means to facilitate the construction of new social knowledge. Students in the Contemporary Latino Literature and Film (SPAN 381) class captured, in digital story form, the experiences of first generation and/or Latinx students at Kenyon College. This web-exhibit is housed on Digital Kenyon and can be viewed here: digital.kenyon.edu/celspan381/. If you're interested in housing work on Digital Kenyon, please contact Jenna Nolt in LBIS before the beginning of your project so that she can provide you with best practices and things to consider.