We are using WordPress at Western Washington University to support our first-year programs. Three first-year students will be posting to a weblog as they progress throughout their first quarter during fall 2005. Known as Real, this project also interviews the same three students 6 times throughout their first quarter–the videos are played in first-year seminars to spark discussion about adjustment and transition issues and to promote academic engagement.
As far as technical issues are concerned, we have had no support from our academic technology group to do php 0n an on-campus server, so we have placed our WordPress weblog on an off-campus server that supports php and MySql. That has worked well for us.
