A few ‘new’ edublogs

Last week Alan was lamenting the seeming dissappearance of a number of formerly prolific edubloggers. I too had wondered where many people had disappeared to, though I seem to recall from my days ‘inside’ the institution that November and December can be particularly hectic times.

In the spirit of widening the circle, here’s a few other educational bloggers I have stumbled on to recently, and that I haven’t seen mentioned widely yet:

• “eLearning Eclectic” http://gordmackenzie.com/eclectic/
  e-Learning News site from Gord Mackenzie (formerly “Enlightened e-Learning Blog”)
• “Inside Learning Weblog” http://www.brianalger.net/
  Brian Alger
• “Weblogs in Higher Education” http://www.mchron.net/site/edublog.php
  Ken Smith in the English Department at Indiana University South Bend.
• “Rick’s Cafe” http://www.omegageek.net/rickscafe/
  Blog for the graduate studies program in Educational Communications and Technology at the University of Saskatchewan
• “Technica” http://omegageek.typepad.com/technica/
  Robert J. Wall, North Battleford Comprehensive High School, Saskatchewan

In particular I would highlight the first two, Brian Alger’s and Gord McKenzie’s, as so far containing lots of thought provoking material.

And as has been pointed out a number of times, one of the beauties of RSS is the ability to be notified of activity on a blog that has otherwise been inactive simply by keeping a subscription to their feed in your aggregator. The way I manage that in bloglines is to create a folder titled ‘Dormant’ so that I can keep track of blogs that do not seem to be posting regularly anymore. – SWL