Comments on: Top 50 P-12 Edublogs? – June 2008

By: Britt Watwood

Britt Watwood — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:45:35 +0000

Scott: I searched your site and did not see it, so thought I would ask if you have updated this list since 2008? http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2008/06/top-50-p-12-edu.html

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By: suvarna

suvarna — Thu, 06 May 2010 11:56:38 +0000

My Technorati relevance is 4 million plus, and you know what, that’s fine by me. Let’s see how long it takes to rise to the top, or at least, the 25K level where I was. I was able to keep my subscribers, whew!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Making a list can be dangerous(ly relevant?) but anytime anyone does, I appreciate it as it turns my attention to some sites that might otherwise escape me.
So, thanks.

Kevin

By: Jon Becker

Jon Becker — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Two, perhaps related thoughts. First, what percentage of those blogs are focused mostly on issues of ed. tech? As best I can tell, at least 13 of the top 15 are (I’m not counting #1…).
Second (and I guess relatedly), it surprises me not to see folks like Matthew Tabor, Alex Russo, Gary Stager, Sherman Dorn, etc. there. Dorn’s been blogging (and well, IMHO) for a LONG time. I see Eduwonkette in the mix, but I’m certain she benefits from her affiliation with Ed. Week (not that she doesn’t deserver consideration as a “top” blogger). Are there so few people interested in the larger ed. policy issues? I think I’ll write a blog post about this…

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

You should have mentioned DetentionSlip.org they are ranked 10 on Alltop, just won Best Education Blog of the Year, and are read by thousands of teachers daily!

http://detentionslip.org

By: Micah Sittig

Micah Sittig — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

I’m relatively new to the edublog world, so I’m checking out these rankings for new reads. The #1 weblog has compiled a “Best Of” posts page, but I found that it only has the word “education” once, and the word “teaching” zero times. How did it make it to the top of the chart?

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/bestof.html

By: Justin B.

Justin B. — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

@Jon:

Personally, I am glad to see fewer than expected “policy” blogs in the mix. A lot of what goes on in the policy blogs is a Washington insiders game of charters and unions and testing and fish porn (ok, I like the fish porn). I realize education policy is pretty important, but how you teach history is pretty important too. I want the policy information conveyed to the masses like everyone else, but a lot of what goes on in the ed. policy blogs is writing for other ed. policy blogs, not for the general education audience.

I do think there is an over representation of tech blogs, but that is to be expected at this stage of the development of Web 2.0. Because Scott is using Technorati ratings, the biggest interest group of bloggers on the web are going to have the largest representation on here. Still the largest intra-education interest group that have their own blogs to generate Technorati rating is Ed. Tech folks so it comes as no surprise to me that Ed. Tech is highly (over) represented. It would be interesting if Scott were to do an Ed-Tech list and a non ed-tech list.

The simple fact is that we have to come up with a better way to measure this eventually than Technorati ratings (I have no problem with Scott using it now as it is the best we have). As you said, highly influential blogs like Russo’s and Dorns and others should be on most “top” lists, but have not been citied by enough different blogs to be included in the Technorati rating.

I saw that TaxProf Blog uses site hits and page views to create a legal list of law professor blawgs, but that relies on people putting a sitemeter on their blog that others can view. Of course, the law also has their own legal blog directories, which all relevant legal blogs submit to, so there is a ready made tracking and popularity system. See (http://www.justia.com/). Those are not the best ways either, but I do think they come closer to measuring actual influence of blogs.

Still, I like these lists because like Kevin I get to learn about new blogs I otherwise might not know about that others are finding valuable.

By: Laura B. Fogle

Laura B. Fogle — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000

This list is very timely for me. I am working on a course about blogging in the classroom. I will share definitely share this list with my students!

There are a lot of Ed Tech blogs and they don’t appeal to the average teacher who is not a tech junkie. Would you consider doing a “Top 10 Classroom Blogs” list?