Just pulled together some stats for fall semester's blogs. There are 202 discrete blogs for courses and programs at the UA (We only support blogs in instruction) and a total of 722 authors. I put a list of fall semester's blogs together on the Blogging @ the LTC website.
Blogs used in instruction this semester display the usual mix of individual blogs for each student in a class, a single course blog where all students may author entries, a professor's blog where the instructor posts entries and the students comment on entries, a professor's blog where the instructor posts entries about course news, assignments, events, etc., and blogs for programs related to instructional applications.
About half a dozen of the blogs and authors created were never used, which is par for the course. Of more interest to me are the new-comers, like Al Classen, who embraced the use of blogs and wove a course blog into their pedagogy. There are also a few on-going blogs that have had a number of new authors added. My favorite is e-mentoring, a blog accompanying MCB396i, an "initiative was borne of the desire to encourage and retain more [female] students in science."
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