Edublogs We Love: Ten Top Stops for Internet Interaction

Great education Web site

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on April 3, 2008 - 20:23.

Everyone needs to check out Detention Slip. It has daily updates with all the crazy news stories around the country in public education.

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Howdy

Submitted by Miguel Guhlin (not verified) on September 20, 2007 - 17:58.

This comment may very well be uninspiring and lack "pithiness," but...that should never be an impediment for a blogger, especially one who appears second on the list (which I sometimes point out without sharing it's in alpha order...pride).

After reading Stephen, Graham, and Ewan, I've come to the conclusion that I'm the victim of an elaborate conspiracy of blog inflation. Like Eddie Murphy in the "Trading Places" movie, I find myself wondering, "How did I get valued as lovable by one of the premier (honest) magazines that I read?" As I slip the fame into my pockets for fear this is only temporary, I can look around and see folks that aren't subscribers to Edutopia's "Edublogs We Love" left out. Would I trade places with them?

The answer is, "no." Around the Corner is a blog written by a Latin-American male. I am a minority in the edublogging community, a fact I hadn't paid much attention to until Tim Holt (Bytespeed Blog) pointed it out. In short, there are too many white folk and not enough people of color represented.

Before we go on, I'm of Swedish descent on my father's side, Panamanian on my mother's side. I claim dual citizenship in the U.S. and Panama...would that I could claim New Zealand, Australia and Canada.

When i point this out to my audiences, invariably, the white folks make the argument, "It's the power of your ideas, not your race or ethnic background, that count." Shortly thereafter, the people of color walk up and say, "I'm glad you pointed that out because it's so true." It's amazing to see the difference in perception...are both deluded?

(It may explain why my Dad--American of Swedish descent--would complain that Hispanics would always vote Hispanic, but whites would vote for Hispanics if they were good candidates.)

We have different perspectives. I'm grateful that Around the Corner was chosen, elated in fact, but in a world with over 70 million blogs, a top 10 list is a very short blogroll. Diversity of thought, richness of ideas are essential in any endeavour, but especially in the conceptual age.

I commend Edutopia editor(s) for their choices, and recognize that blogging is a form of media unto itself. It is pure vanity to enjoy appearing in the list, and a waste of pride to wish to be on the list of "old" media.

As a blogger, the supreme compliment is being quoted and a link. Don't suppose you could throw one my way?

Miguel Guhlin
Around the Corner-MGuhlin.net
http://mguhlin.net

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Carnival of Education

Submitted by Coturnix (not verified) on September 20, 2007 - 09:50.

For me, the central place for edublogging is The Education Wonks:
http://educationwonk.blogspot.com/

who also run the amazing Carnival of Education:
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/cprof_5.html

The older archives of the carnival can be found here:
http://educationwonk.blogspot.com/2005/05/carnival-of-education-archives.html

Also check other education-related carnivals:
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/clist.php?directory_id=18

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Edublogs I read

Submitted by James Sigler (not verified) on September 14, 2007 - 07:09.

It was great to see David Warlick's, Wesley Fryer's, Miguel Guilin's and Will Richardson's blog included in edublogs we love. I have already been reading them. They are advocates for bringing technology into the classroom, not for its own sake, but because it amplifies learning in the classroom, both good and bad. They promote a student-centered rather than a teacher-centered classroom. They promote changing 19th century teaching into 21st century teaching. They are all great reads.

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Well, this just came into my

Submitted by Stephen Downes (not verified) on September 13, 2007 - 15:41.

Well, this just came into my email this evening (Thursday, Septenber 13):

"Edublogs We Love: Ten Top Stops for
Internet Interaction"

It seems to me that the use of the phrase 'Top Ten' kind of belies this:

"Remember, though, that this list was meant to be nothing more than what the headline implies: Edublogs We Love. I wouldn’t read any dark jingoism into the selections."

And I would add, in response to this:

"But I'd say that the primary reason international blogs didn't pop up was that, frankly, we can’t fairly judge blogs whose language we don’t understand"

that hundreds of millions of people outside the United States speak English, and so language is utterly no reason to fail to consider international blogs.

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Where's Joyce Valenza?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on September 13, 2007 - 08:15.

Librarians are teachers too, you know:
joycevalenza.edublogs.org

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Edublogging

Submitted by Jim Daly (not verified) on September 13, 2007 - 08:14.

Thanks for the comments; much appreciated.
Remember, though, that this list was meant to be nothing more than what the headline implies: Edublogs We Love. I wouldn’t read any dark jingoism into the selections. We solicited input from many people on their favorite blogs, and these were the ones most often cited. It also isn't a ranking, as one reader implies. It's just, well, blogs we love. Take it at that.
But I'd say that the primary reason international blogs didn't pop up was that, frankly, we can’t fairly judge blogs whose language we don’t understand. There may be some excellent Chinese, French, Italian, Czech, Spanish, Japanese, etc. edublogs, and - if so - please tell us about them. Sounds like you all have some ideas. We can include them in our international issue (best ideas from educational communities around the world) which will come out in February. Meanwhile, thanks for the reminder that we need to look past our own borders.

Jim Daly
Editor in Chief, Edutopia

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