Kenrick-Glennon Seminary (a Pils sketching)

Once the idea of posting materials in cyberspace was commonplace throughout our community, it was a natural step to move from the posting of academic materials to the posting of personal reflections on life in the seminary.  Once the personal reflections were up, it was an even more natural step to move from that to the idea of receiving feedback on them from other members of the community. Placed in blog form, though, the erstwhile private reflections of any of our students suddenly became grist for public consumption.  If you look to the left, you'll see the whole gamut of presently active student blogs -- all of which got their start from the progenitor of Kenrick blogging, Fr. Dana Christensen, ordained in 2005.

Now, it had never been our institutional intention that students would begin inserting their private thoughts into our public image.  Even though we hosted a student workshop on podcasting and multimedia in September of 2005, it strangely didn't occur to us that students would spontaneously begin producing their own cyberspaces independent of their academic websites.  The desire, though, is clearly present, and it was there long before we recognized it in the late fall of 2005 as a self-propelling movement. It has, consequently, necessitated the formulation of an institutional policy on blogging that will extend to podcasting and other forms of broadcast media with which the name of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary is associated.