My third post when I started blogging was a list and description of the 17 blogs I was routinely following via Google Reader. After three months of blogging, what I have found is that my view of the world has certainly expanded. Between Twitter, comments on these blogs and my own here, and new aggregations such as Alltop, I realized this weekend that I had added 25 more blogs to my aggregator. Amazingly, I still find I can keep up with the flow as I continue to develop my personal learning environment. I thought I would take the next two days to share additional sources of my inspiration.
My initial post “Education Blogs” is here and still relevant. Here are half of the new twenty-five that I now follow:
2 cents Worth………………..……………..This is David Warlick’s blog, where he explores teaching and learning in the information landscape. As he says, he writes “…to have my ideas criticized, deconstructed, recombined, added to, and, when possible, to be used.”
BlogHighEd…………………….……………This is a Higher Ed blogger network, which features top blog posts from educators, webmasters, marketers, consultants, vendors, and more.
CoolCatTeacher……………..……………..Vicki Davis blogs from Georgia. She is a teacher, entrepreneur, edublogger, writer, avid reader, technology geek, and one of the most passionate educators I have come across. She is co-founder of Women of the Web 2 and featured on EdTechTalk.
Desire2Blog…………………..………………I met Barry Dahl at the eLearning 2008 conference. Barry is VP of Technology and Virtual Campus at Lake Superior College in Minnesota, and is an advocate for eLearning using Desire2Learn.
EdTechTalk…………………………………. EdTechTalk is a community of educators interested in discussing and learning about cutting edge uses of educational technology. They webcast several live shows each week. After each show, they usually post a podcast, chat room transcript and comment forum. Good source of links and love their podcasts, which I listen to during gym or commutes.
Educational Insanity……………………….Jon Bender is a VCU professor who blogs and twitters, much to our delight here in our Center for Teaching Excellence. Jon notes that education is the last unreformed institution from the 19th Century to now try and move into the 21st Century, and he uses his blog as a public spot to share his views on that transition.
Elearnspace…………………….……………. George Siemens is a well-known theorist on the changing nature of learning in a digitally-based society known as connectivism. I do not always agree with his views but he always makes me think.
ExploratoryLearner…………..……….…This is Bud Deihl’s blog. Bud works with me in the Center for Teaching Excellence and is both a soul mate and sounding board for ideas using Web 2.0 instructionally. He is a very accomplished bagpipe player, and his creativity spills over in to his work in communication and digital storytelling.
Half an Hour…………………….……………Stephen Downes is another theorist from the world of connectivism. He has published on elearning, learning objects, PLEs, and educational blogging. In addition to his blog, he also publishes a weekly newsletter which captures top stories from the online learning world.
How to Change the World………..……..Bestselling author of The Art of the Start, Guy Kawasaki is a former Apple fellow at Apple Computer and current venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and very creative thinker. He is the brains behind Alltop, and I find his business sense instructive when considering the changing educational landscape.
Injenuity…………………………..…………..Jennifer Jones is a fascinating elearning guru from Bellingham WA, working in the technical and vocational fields. She has an amazing network of fellow technologists who share lessons learned and best practices.
Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day…..Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies in the UK shares a wealth of practical tips on emerging tools. She also compiles the annual list of Top Tools for Web 2.0.
Mobile Technology in TAFE…….…….Sue Waters of Perth Australia is another of my global network who has greatly influenced my own blog. She also is one of the top Edublog and Twitter cheerleaders, supporting and reinforcing new bloggers as they start. This is one of two blogs I follow from Sue.
More to come tomorrow.
Thanks Britt for the mention. I’m honored to be included in your list — glad that I have influenced your blogging and enjoy networking with you on twitter.
Glad to see we both are seeing each other in our twitter timelines again. Lets hope they have fixed the problem. But please tell me have you managed to translate Romanian on Gabriela’s blog as I really want a translator that works.