CHNM Essays
Sending Your Courses into the Blogosphere: An Introduction for “Old People”
T. Mills Kelly

This article originally appeared in the August 2006 issue of NewsNet 46/4 (August 2006): 49-52 and is reprinted here with permission.

Not long ago, one of our graduate students at George Mason University gave me some bad news. During a conversation with undergraduates in a class she teaches, a student told her that email was “just a way to stay in touch with old people.” The other students in the room agreed—you know…old people…like professors.