I’m just getting more and more amazed by the really great K-12 edublogging that has been cropping up in the last six months or so. Not just in number but in quality. There is no doubt that the Read/Write Web is finding its way into the classroom. I’ve got more teachers out there than I know what to do with, which is a good and bad thing. Good, obviously, in that I’m learning so much. Bad in that I’ve really been struggling to keep up with it all.

I’ve got 97 names on my edublog roll, and it seems like I’m adding someone new at least a couple of times a week. As the quality of the content increases, I’m finding the quantity just can’t stay the same. Used to be I scanned a lot of the posts; now I find myself reading closely more and more. So I’m at a point where I need to make it more manageable.

I hate the idea of paring the list for fear of what I’ll miss. But I keep thinking that the whole point of blogs is finding and filtering the good stuff, and if I can manage reading 75 quality bloggers on a daily basis, I’m not going to miss too much of importance anyway.

Next month, I’ll be celebrating four years as a blogger, and I can tell you when I started, there were only about four teachers in this universe. The mere fact that there are hundreds of teacher/bloggers out there now just blows me away…very cool!

(via Amy Bowllan) Well, that’s a new one. Duke professors are “beginning to take advantage of a new technological toy: online blogging.”

Not that all is fun and games, however. There is some benefit to blogging in the classroom.

“I think it has an important pedagogic purpose,” he said. “The blog form, which has evolved naturally, is the best way of having a conversation [online].”

And not only do Dukies write in blogs, they read them too! For class!

“If you’re in a class that’s dealing with a relevant topic, going to blogs can be a really good way to get a variety of information that we would not be exposed to otherwise,” he said. “It should be a source that adds to class discussions, rather than one that drives class discussions.”

And, get this…there is blog envy, even.

Many students who have not used blogs in their courses think they would be an entertaining addition to the generic classroom setting.

“Blogging may just be another dimension of the student-professor relationship,” senior Tushar Sharma said. “I would like to blog with my professors.”

My, how far we’ve come…
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