There are a lot of edublogs (blogs about education) out there. So how do you decide which edublogs to follow?In the “old days”, aka five years ago, you could just do a search and find them. I find these days that technique doesn’t work so well, so here is what I tend to do.

1. Ask friends/colleagues with an interest in education which blogs they recommend.
2. Look on the blog rolls of blogs you already read to see which blogs they suggest. If you like they stuff they write, chances are they also read blogs you’ll like.
3. Note the other blogs mentioned in the blogs your already read. Are these worth adding to your list of blogs?
4. Have a look at the Edublogs awards. Eddies have been awarded since 2004. Indeed I was a nominee in 2005 for some research I did with my colleague Lyn Boddington at Lincoln University.
5. Have a look round the blogs on edublogs.org. They have a list of popular tags on their home page.
6. Use a search engine designed specifically for searching blogs, such as Google Blog Search, Blog Search Engine and Blogdigger. There is also a good list on Wikipedia. Remember these are not specific to edublogs so you may have to be quite specific with your search terms. Try searching for “edublog” to start off with.
7. Technorati has been indexing blogs for years, it has indexed 133 million blog records since 2002. Again this is a general index, so be specific about searching for education content.
8. Bloglines is a blog feedreader, and blog host, but it is also a useful place to search for blogs. You do need an account to search but registration is free.

What do you do to find edublogs?

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