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A starter set of EduBlogs

The entire DEN team recently got together in Maryland for a series of team building activites, meetings and trainings. I did a whirlwind tour of the blogging world and got everybody started up in Bloglines. I just realized that the list I pulled together for them might have some value to other Ed-Tech folks so I changed a few features to make it public.

Basically, it’s a brief list of Education blogs that would provide people with a good starting point in the EduBlogosphere. These aren’t necessarily the best edublogs, or my favorite edublogs, but they are a decent sample of the many types that are out there. Some are written by Technology folks, others are by teachers and others are classroom blogs. At least one is anonymous, and a couple are organizational. Some generate huge amounts of traffic, others only post a few times per month. On the whole I think it’s a pretty decent list representing the diverse world of edublogs.

I’ve also included a few non-educational feeds to reinforce the idea that it doesn’t need to be all about work. Hopefully people will find blogs that provide value related to their own personal interests. Of course, since I put this together for the DEN regional managers, their own blogs are all listed there as well. If you don’t see your own there, don’t take it personally. I really wanted it to be a small sample of many different styles which caused me to cut some of my own personal favorites from the list. Heck, there are several blogs in the list that I don’t even subscribe to! Regardless, if you’re sharing some Kool-Aid with your fellow educators and are looking for a decent starter set of blogs for them to subscribe to, feel free to use it.

Oh, one other thing. Aaron Smith, known to the blogging and podcasting world as the Academic Aesthetic, has started putting together a great wiki for getting started in EduBlogging. He’s done a fantastic job on it already and I used it in my presentation. Stop by, check it out, and add a few resources of your own if you feel so inclined!

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