I’ve been noticing a few Manchester-based education blogs of late.

One that’s particularly well done is Digital Heritage. It documents an Art Gallery and Museum Studies MA course at the Centre for Museology, University of Manchester. The blog in particular aims to:

• Provide an online collaborative notebook
• Offer students the opportunity to reflect on the course’s themes each week
• Function as a bulletin board for class information
• Collect and keep track of online resources relevant to the course’s themes
• Enhance students’ learning experience through a blended learning environment
  Offer the opportunity to students to acquire experience and transferable skills in running and using a piece of social educational software
• Present the students’ work to fellow students, academics and museum professionals, who are interested in the topic of digital heritage

All great objectives – particularly the penultimate, which I imagine might result in a few more Manchester blogs emerging in the future. Five weeks in, the blog is developing very well.

There are several other education blogs about too: The Masterplan, by maths teacher Dan Stucke, fellow maths blog, Chorlton High Maths, and Manchester Business Schools’ entertaining but short-lived Naked Chasm Jumpers.