EduRhetor.org owner
Edu*Rhetor blog administrator

Assistant Professor of Communications Studies
Department of Communication and Culture
University of Calgary,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Link to T. Smith’s Professional Website at U of C

Contact: smit – at – ucalgary – dot – ca  (spelled out to prevent spam)

Edu*Rhetor (Tania Smith) has developed or administered the following blogs and sites:

• Edurhetor.wordpress.com – since 2008, this blog, (hosted on wordpress.com, a site that offers free public blogs) has been used for professional informal articles about rhetoric in higher education and society.  In late 2011, Edurhetor.org was created as a parallel domain over which Smith had more control of the technology necessary to build websites-in-development on its subdomains.
• Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning – This blog is hosted on InMotion hosting. A separate website exists and a new WordPress site is being developed within a confidential subdomain.
• Inkshed Blog / Newsletter – This academic organization has had a website since the early days of the technology. The blog supplements the website.  Smith was part of the blog’s development team and developed its header image.
• ComCul Undergrad Programs Blog – This blog is hosted on a Multisite installation of WordPress, in which comculblogs.ca is a domain with a super-administrator who manages hosting and plugins, much like wordpress.com.  Teachers and students and other members of the university community are free to create sites and blogs using the comculblogs platform.
• U of C Peer Mentoring Network site & blog – This is an inter-faculty program at a university. The university site is created in Drupal technology and a WordPress blog supplements the website.  An RSS feed on the News page of the site provides website readers with summaries of recent blog posts and attracts them to the blog, which will house articles authored by instructors and students over time.
• Calgary Renaissance Singers & Players site – this music group’s website has been recently handed to Smith, a singer in the group who volunteered to help in managing its content. It is hosted at Dotster, which does not have a user-friendly interface for WordPress users.  The template for the site is not completely open-source and now costs money to update and maintain; it may be moved to a different hosting service and template in the next year.