Aseem Badshah has created a listing of the Top Education Bloggers or edubloggers based upon Technorati’s rankings.
The list is formidable and includes some of the top bloggers dealing with educational issues around the world, covering social media, online education, wireless technologies, Internet safety, copyright, challenging technophobia in education, and more.
Weblogg-ed (feed) by Will Richardson is the blog of the “Learner in Chief” at Connective Learning and the author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms (Corwin Press). His site is hosted by edublogs and is considered one of the hottest blogs on education and online technology on the web. His specialty is K-12 and bringing online technologies to the classroom internationally. Recent articles include:
- Blog Commenting Evolves
- “First, Kill All the School Boards”
- Looking for Student “Blogging”
- “New York Measuring Teachers by Test Scores”
- Traditional Media “Elevating the Conversation” Online
- Social Networks (No) vs. Social Tools (Yes) in Schools
Stephen’s Web (feed) by Stephen Downes who works for the National Research Council, Institute for Information Technology, in Canada. He says he specializes in “online learning, content syndication, and new media.” While his site is more static website than blog, it does feature comments and from his list of most popular articles are:
- E-Learning 2.0
- How to Be Heard
- Nine Rules for Good Technology
- Educational Blogging
- An Introduction to Connective Knowledge
- Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources
2 Cents Worth (feed) by David Warlick is an eclectic set of posts on education and other subjects by a “non-traditional educator” who describes his blog as:
Many of the barriers that prevent us from modernizing our education systems come from the baggage of outdated notions about teaching, learning, curriculum, our children, and their future. Asking questions seems to be one way of probing for new perceptions about what we do, why we do it, and how we might adapt within an almost constantly changing environment.
Recent posts include:
- Is this high school?
- Visualizing Educon
- Open Education Declaration
- Are they Working their Reading?
- Science Blogging Conference — Main Day
The Fischbowl (feed) hosted and managed by Karl Fisch, is the staff development blog for the Colorado Arapahoe High School teachers “exploring constructivism and 21st century learning skills.” The blog covers a lot about online education technologies and incorporating it into the classroom, as well as the events and activities of the high school kids.
Recent articles include:
- Creativity: More Food for Thought for Our AWNM Project
- Thinking Creatively
- Live Blogging AWNM – Round One
- How It All Ends: YouTube, Climate Change, and Inquiry
- Innovate or Die: Utility and Significance
- ADVIS Presentation Questions and Feedback
- Think Pink: A Whole New Learning Experience
Cool Cat Teacher (feed) by Vicki A Davis covers a wide range of teacher issues and online technologies including social networking.
Recent posts include:
- Are Webkinz just Crummy or a Tool to Use?
- Horizon Report 2008 is available now for download
- The Frustrations of Finding the Audio & Video for …
- She’s no longer “hiding behind her blog”
- Don’t be a Blog Orphan: How are you Backing Up
- Proof that Web 2 is for All Schools: Listen to
- Why should teachers have to hide behind their blog…
Moving at the Speed of Creativity (feed) by Wesley Fryer admits that his blog is his personal thoughts on education and learning, even though he is a noted speaker and workshop leader and podcaster. He even has a pedagogic creed to further define him. His blog covers Internet safety and safe digital networking, education and online social media, copyrights, and more.
Recent articles and podcasts include:
- Podcast220V: Cleaning Up Downloaded Podcasts with Juice Receiver
- Extent of a child’s right to online privacy
- VoiceThread Publishing Example: Safe, Powerful, Interactive
- Bison on the Konza Prairie
- Reflections on Dr. King’s Dream
- Understanding and respecting copyright a problem for many
edu.blogs.com (feed) by Ewan McIntosh has a tagline that says “social participative media, education, and the future” which covers a lot of territory. Living in Edinburgh, Scotland, Ewan covers social online media, as it relates to education, working with educators and teaching institutions to integrate the web with the classroom and beyond.
Recently, Ewan got involved with the Economist Magazine debating on the question of whether or not social networks have a positive impact on education. Educational bloggers around the world are heating up with this ongoing debate.
A few of his other recent articles include:
- Leading change with emerging technologies
- Thinking Out Of The XBox: Gaming for learning
- Economist debate: The finale
- Economist debate rumbles on… Part 2: The Rebuttal
- Social media for Everyman? Not so sure…
- The Bebo Boomers… our future (with some direction)
dangerously irrelevant (feed) by Scott McLeod covers the struggles and future of education and modern technologies. It’s stuffed with news on teaching, online education, social media, and improving education through the Internet.
Recent posts include:
- 2 Million Minutes
- Educon 2.0
- Motorola Innovation Generation Grants
- Knowledge networks
- The knowledge gap
- Three brave men
- School law blogs
- DABA: Scott Meech
eLearning Technology (feed) by Tony Karrer covers eLearning news and technology. The CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a software, web and eLearning development firm based in Los Angeles, Karrer comes at education from the technical side of working with online educational technology and media.
Recent articles include:
- eLearning Technology: eLearning Authoring Tool
- eLearning Technology: Touch Typing – Cursive Writing – Why?
- eLearning Technology: Session Hopping – A Practical Guide
- eLearning Technology: eLearning Course Development
- Learning Systems
- EPSS and ePerformance
- Wiki Course Authoring
Techlearning blog (feed) is a collection of blog posts from various teachers discussing educational issues today. While hard to navigate and a bit clumsy in design, the editoirial commentaries by the contributors are often thought-provoking.
Edublog’s Top Bloggers
Members of the Edublogs Network are also included in the list of top edubloggers from around the world. They include:
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Thanks in advance,
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