Exploring Place Blogging

I'm developing course modules for EDU 652, Instructional Design and Delivery, an online graduate course at Ashford University.

In an attempt to develop material I might actually use, I've decided to design materials for a Place Blogging course. The hypothetical course is for adult learners participating in an online collaboration administered by a local entity such as a library. A friend, who is a librarian, seemed to think the idea would attract a lot of interest where she works.

Here's some MindNode Pro mind maps of my development process:

Here are some thoughts about how I might use some of my existing online accounts:

Our first module assignment was to design an "absorb" activity... here's mine:

EDU 652 Place Blogging Wiki (Beta)

Here are some links that I've discovered so far in my search for ideas, inspiration, and structure. These are in no special order:

http://journgrad.wordpress.com/

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/starttofinish/choose/

http://www.epa.gov/care/library/community_culture.pdf

http://www.techterms.com/definition/multimedia

http://www.multimediastandards.org/grid/

http://internships.about.com/od/internshipsquestions/g/whatismultimedia.htm

http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/sustainabletourism/Community-Sense-of-Place-Initiative.cfm

http://www.western.edu/academics/headwaters/headwaters-conference/archives/cross_headwatersXII.pdf

http://www.diggings.org/

http://www.simplicity-matters.org/guides/dsop/dsop_2sided.pdf

http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/place/placesense.htm

http://www.technorhetoric.net/10.1/coverweb/lindgren/index.htm

http://www.makingsenseofplace.com/about-place.htm