Blogging at the Computer Writing and Research Lab, U of Texas

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/teachers/blogs.shtml

Here's another example I came across recently of an ed tech department trying to support blogging on their campus. I came across this by way of the paper they cite at the end, "Welcome to the Blogshpere: Using Weblogs to Create Classroom Community." It looks at some of the uses that can be made of blogs in the online classroom, and the kind of 'community' they promote, which while definitely different than closed CMS or threaded discussion boards is community nonetheless. Finally, also from the same institution is this example of an online class exercise where the instructor proposes that students use blogs as a coordination tool to help in the drafting of a group proposal.