Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

2008 Education Blogosphere Survey is now open!

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The second annual Education Blogosphere Survey is now open for business! 4 screens. 25 questions.

Please use the link and/or the graphic and help spread the call for participants. Last year 160 edubloggers participated. Let’s see if we can at least double that this year?

You can see last year’s call for participation and survey results to get a sense of how I’m going to report out this year.

Thanks to everyone who contributed ideas for questions and a HUGE THANKS in advance to anyone and everyone who helps publicize this!

Deadline = January 26, 11:00pm, (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)

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