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I have read more thought-provoking posts on students 2.0 (a collaborative blog produced by students) since it launched than on any other blog in my reader.  I thoroughly recommend it for that reason and for that reason alone.

If I were one of the contributors to the new students 2.0 collaborative blog, however, I think I’d be getting rather sick of the patronising tone of many of the comments – stuff like “I’m really impressed by the quality of your writing.”  No one would say that to me (not even if they were impressed, which would be rather unlikely) so why say it to these confident young bloggers? Hopefully the virtual patting-on-the-head will end soon, and folk will stick to commenting on the substantive issues which are being raised so eloquently.

Or maybe I’m wrong.  Maybe the youngsters involved were worried about how they would be received, and are most grateful for the words of support.   What do I know?!

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I’ve been playing with the data from Scotedublogs (I can provide this data in its raw detail, if anyone wants it!). Clearly we do not have every edublog in Scotland in the system, but I thought this visualization was interesting:

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I realised today that many of the blogs in my news reader are dormant/dead.  Some were tentative ventures that didn’t develop, but some were really interesting for a while.  For me, the lesson is that if you are not actively seeking out new blogs to read, you are slowly losing touch with the blogosphere.

Anyway, here are some blogs I miss:

• Creating Passionate Users – of course;
• Miscellaneous Learning – Nova Stevenson;
• GeekyTeach - recent signs of life actually from Peter;
• Paul Goodall;
• It’s late and I’m tired – the reality of being a probationer;
• Graham Dickie;

Can anyone recommend any new blogs that I should definitely be subscribing to?

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Just in case you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last couple of weeks, I’d like to draw your attention to the new Connected Live blog.  It’s being written by a collection of the brightest and best from the world of Scottish educational blogging, and has been churning out a series of interesting podcasts alongside the great articles.  Definitely worth a read

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This may be the last post until mid-August.  On the other hand I may get bored and do loads of blogging over the Summer holidays.  Either way, we break up on Friday, and I’ve really enjoyed my first year of blogging – thanks for reading, commenting and being there

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