Educational Blogs

Blog Tips for Teachers

Tip #1 - Read with Skepticism

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Tip #2 - Use an aggregator

Blogs are much easier to read when using an aggregator, such as Bloglines or Google Reader. These free services allow you to read all of your favorite blogs in one location. In other words, instead of having to visit each blog every day to find out what new postings have been made, you can simply add the blog to your aggregator and it will show you whenever something new has been posted.

Tip #3 - Read unrelated blogs

Subscribe to blogs that expose you to ideas that you would not normally be exposed to otherwise. If you're in Higher Education, subscribe to a k-12 blog. If you live in the US, subscribe to some Australian blogs.

As an teacher, subscribing to blogs can be an indispensable way to keep up with changes in the world, especially related to learning technologies. Hearing ideas of other instructors can help improve our own teaching as well as provide new ways for looking at a existing challenges.

The following is a list of recommended blogs for teachers (a.k.a Richard's Blogroll). If you're still not sold on the idea of reading blogs, check out my "Blog Tips for Teachers" to the right. You may also be interested in checking out educational podcasts as well.

Richard's Blogroll

EdTechTalk Blog - podcast about educational technology

Weblogg-ed - Learning with the read/write web

43 Folders - Merlin Mann’s website about personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better.

AusMacEd - Australian educators using Macs, iPods & iPhones

Digital Chalkie - An excellent blog by Australian educators

Disordered Cogitations - Ruminations and ramblings of an information technology squatter.

Infinite Thinking Machine - ideas to help teachers and students thrive in the 21st century

Learning TRENDS - Elliott Masie's official blog

The Unreasonable Man - thoughts on developments in Science, Technology and Education.

Interaction designers coffee break - blog on creating effective user interfaces

Official Google Blog - always good to know what google has up their sleeve

Richard Culatta's blog - thoughts on educational technology and learning innovations (a shameless plug for my own blog :-)

Rick West's Blog - Blog from an experienced instructional designer