Blog Awards

Doug Johnson over at the Blue Skunk Blog honored me with a blog award. Now I have the good fortune to be able to award it to seven other bloggers.

1. I suspect Clarence Fisher has already received this, but I don’t remember seeing it on his blog, so here goes. Remote Access is one of those blogs that I find myself reflecting on days, even months after I read the posts. They often come up in conversations with others. I appreciate that be blogs so regularly, giving us an ongoing view into his classroom. We see his projects and his ideas evolve over time. He reads widely and thinks deeply. Enjoy!
2. Technology in the Middle is Patrick Woesnner’s blog. It covers a good range of topics, from helpful utilities and websites, to notes from classes, to curricular projects.
3. Betchablog is a place where Chris Betcher connects Best Practices to every day use. He’s a skilled podcaster, and he also makes video tutorials, so don’t miss those parts of his blog.
4. Kathy Sierra’s Creating Passionate Users is no longer being written, but it is still online and worth reading. She is a computer programmer, author, horse trainer, and artist. Her ideas for creating passionate users apply not just to software, but to education and life, and her graphics are powerful and fun.
5. Dr. Scott McLeod’s Dangerously Irreleveant blog is anything but irrelevant, He is a university-level lecturer and researcher who is now working to get education students and administrators up to speed.
6. Dan Meyer’s dy/dan blog’s tagline is “Working hard to make it look easy.” He fascinates me with the way he draws on technology to bring the world to his math class.
7. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee’s Yarn Harlot blog has next to nothing to do with education and a whole lot to do with knitting and book tours and good humor. Check out her recent post on an unfortunate (but hilarious) coffee episode at an airport during her recent book tour.

You will notice that two of those blogs aren’t education blogs. I think it is important that we read outside out fields, both for our jobs and for ourselves.