Who Are the Top Edubloggers?

January 28th, 2008 · 23 Comments
Blogging Teachers · Lead Stories

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.

graphic digital painting of teacher teaching students 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:

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:

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Many of the barriers that prevent us from modernizing our education systems come from the baggage of outdated notions about teaching, learning, curriculum, our children, and their future.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.

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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23 responses so far ↓

1 Frank's Blog // Jan 28, 2008 at 8:12 pm

This is a fantastic magazine. It pulls all the pertinent information right to the surface so that we can have access. More important for newcomers that don’t yet know their way aroung.

Thanks
Frank
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2 Lorelle VanFossen // Jan 28, 2008 at 8:16 pm

@Frank’s Blog:

Thanks for the kind words, Frank. We’re eager to fill this site up with the best educators can offer with all the news you can use!

How is that for a good slogan? :D
3 Edublogs Expands Their Services: Edublogger, Magazine, and Edublogs Campus | EDC Blog - News and Commentary // Jan 29, 2008 at 7:33 am

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4 timholt // Jan 29, 2008 at 3:45 pm

Aww. my site was left off again.
Just like when People Magazine left me off their list of Sexiest Men for 2007…

I have to get new PR people

Grin
5 Lynn // Jan 29, 2008 at 3:51 pm

This is a great idea!

In response to a recent forum discussion on Classroom 2.0, “Let’s Share Links to our Blogs!”, an edublogger directory was created. Edubloggers are welcome to visit and enter details about your blogs.

Here is a link to a list of bloglinks from the Edubloggers who participated the Classroom 2.0 Discussion.
6 Education In the News - What’s Worth Checking Out — Open Education // Jan 29, 2008 at 5:16 pm

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7 Dot // Jan 29, 2008 at 11:59 pm

I upload word or frontpage files into Yahoo briefcase and Blackboard, but cannot upload them into blogs because all the table formatting is lost. Is there a quick way to upload the files and keep all the formatting, including changes in fonts and colours? Thanks.
8 Judy O'Connell // Jan 30, 2008 at 2:39 am

This new magazine is a great idea, Lorelle, but there are some issues for me too. It is a sad day when marketing takes over the good will of blogging.

There are many wordpressMU bloggers, wordpress.com bloggers, blogger bloggers and more who are essential contributors to the global conversation and the collaborative essence of edublogging. I am really sorry to see this magazine being used as a marketing tool to push edublogs, rather than furthering the cause of good blogging in education around the world.

On another note, Joyce Valenza is a fantastic blogger, but no longer blogs at the link you included in your top 10 list. I’m wondering who did your research?

I guess I’m a little saddened by the lauch of this magazine. There is real danger in destroying the open collaborative environment of blogging around the world.

The edublog awards are currently open to anyone – I’m wondering if this is also going to change.

(I’d like to note, that while I blog at wordpress, I have championed edublogs in my education district, and taught many how to use edublogs. I am not going to champion edublogs any more as a result of the approach of this magazine).

Lorelle, please reconsider the marketing of this magazine…or perhaps you plan to monetize this next?
9 Miguel Guhlin // Jan 30, 2008 at 7:55 am

Howdy, I left a few comments that desire your attention on this post.

Looking forward to your openness on these topics,

Miguel Guhlin
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11 Lorelle VanFossen // Jan 30, 2008 at 12:15 pm

@Judy O’Connell:

As it says in our blog purpose, this is a magazine for the Edulogs Network, to which the more than 150,000 members are entitled, and for the world of education. We are not putting limits on contributors, nor anything except that this will focus on education issues.

As for the list above, I checked out each of the top 10 on the list, which admittedly changes as the Technorati lists changes, and not the individual bloggers at the sites included on the list. If you have an issue with the featured list, I recommend you contact the author.

As for the edublog awards, you’ll have to contact them, too.

As for marketing, since we’ve not done any, I’m sorry you’ve been mislead by the none we’ve done. :D I’ve only stated our intentions behind the magazine in the welcome. The site will grow in time with the direction of the contributors. This is a better discussion for a year from now. I hope you stay tuned and judge us after a year, not when we’re not even out of diapers.
12 Lorelle VanFossen // Jan 30, 2008 at 12:18 pm

@Dot:

Are you having trouble with your edublogs blog? The best resource for specific help in using Edublogs is through the Edublogs Support Forum or Edublogger site for edublog tutorials.
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14 Stephen Downes // Jan 31, 2008 at 6:39 am

Just so you know, my website is anything but static.

First of all, my daily newsletter is here: http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm

If that doesn’t seem bloglike enough, the archives are here: http://www.downes.ca/archives.htm

If you think they should be more like posts, you can find all my articles here: http://www.downes.ca/me/articles.htm

These are drawn from the ‘blog’ site, at halfanhour.blogspot.com

You can also get much more, including presentations http://www.downes.ca/me/presentations.htm and publications http://www.downes.ca/me/publications.htm

And more… but you’ll have to explore.
15 Richard Ginn // Jan 31, 2008 at 11:50 am

Nice list…

I have my education based blog, but I guess it is not getting as much love as the other ones are.
16 Lorelle VanFossen // Jan 31, 2008 at 12:01 pm

@Richard Ginn:

You’ll have to complain to Technorati about that one. :D

The problem with lists like this is that we really don’t know what they are based upon. Does Technorati only list by traffic stats or how many are linking to those sites that are also monitored by Technorati. I’m sure they can’t count every incoming link or trackback from everywhere.

Still, it’s interesting to see these lists to find out who is blogging about education that we might not know about and should be following. I use these lists are resource material, adding them to my feed reader. If they don’t pay off for me, I remove them, but at least I’m learning about who is doing what where out there instead of just hunting around randomly.
17 Dean Groom // Feb 19, 2008 at 4:37 am

“when will I, will I be faaamous’ .. Bros
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19 www.quranreading.com // Jan 6, 2009 at 4:13 am

Hi ,
I am a teacher in reputed university.I want to concentrate the eyes of all world at education and economy problem.Time need to change the education system.
Thanks
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21 India Forex // Jul 13, 2009 at 5:38 am

What a great blog, thanks!
It’s no wonder you are always on the first page of my Feedly account…you deliver the info I am looking for.
Regards,
Jessica
22 Lyn Azzopardi // Aug 24, 2009 at 4:33 pm

Found this post really helpful in identifying where to go to access info and share ideas. Especially for someone relatively inexperienced in this arena. Intend to check out all on the list. Ta
23 Using credit cards // Oct 12, 2009 at 3:48 am

Very useful list – and nice to see a good mix of nationalities of bloggers – not just Americans!

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