BlogLooking (peeking at blogs)

So now that we have gone deeper into some definitions of weblogs, let's get your mouse and mind in action and look at a variety of blogs.

Try to pick a few that are aligned with either a topic your are most interested, or the type way where you have thought you could use a weblog, e.g.

"I am interested in weblogs about teaching science methods"

"I would like to see how other colleges use weblogs to organize their planning committees."

"I would like to find weblogs about 1800th century British poets"

"I am looking for a newsletter that is published as a weblog."

We will try to provide you some starting points with a variety of weblogs as well as some other sites you can use that maintain large collections of links to more weblogs. This is by no means comprehensive, just an opportunity to savor some variety across the world of blogs.

Try to look at at least 3 different blogs, and do not focus too much on any single blog, even if it is so funny or so zany you cannot believe it. Just look, read, and look.

Blogs about Technology

• Jon's Radio


• OLDaily


• EdTechPost


• Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent


• incorporated subversion


• more technology blogs from Google

Education Blogs

• Education Librarian


• A is for Apiculate (Art)


• CollegeTeacher.Org (web design courses)


• Learning About Usability (web activity constructed with blog tools)


• English 1101 courses at Georgia Tech


• IDD Class Blogs (web deisgn class blog with links to student blogs)


• Rhetoric course (Purdue University)


• EDTEC 670 - Exploratory Learning Through Simulation and Games (Bernie Dodge, San Diego State University)


• Mts Hall's 3rd Grade Class


• Me v2.0 (Teacher Ed)


• more educator blogs from EdBlogger Praxis, and Professors Who Blog

Groups/Commitee Blogs

• Hunterdon Central High School


• Website Redesign Project


• Newsletter of the Center for Teaching and Learning at UNBC


• Citizen's League Strategic Planning Committee


• Mustang T.E.K. Committee Weblog


• UBC Botanical Garden


• Web Standards Project

Humor Blogs

• J-Walk


• In My Humble Opinion


• Glancing Askance


• more humor blogs from EatonWeb

Activism/Political Blogs

• Privcy and Security


• Sebastian Holsclaw


• Blog for America (Howard Dean)


• BlogsCanada


• Lex Libertas


• more activism blogs from Globe of Blogs

Non-Mainstream News Blogs

• Back in Irag


• Commentariat


• Metafilter


• more news blogs from DMOZ Open Directory

Places that have collections of blogs

• Blogarama


• Blogwise


• BlogSearchEngine


• Google


• EdBlogger Praxis


• Globe of Blogs


• DMOZ Open Directory


• Technorati Top 100 Weblogs