Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Education group blogs

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What happened to Ed-Tech Insider? Tom seems to be blogging faithfully but no one else seems to have posted in months?

I hope it’s not dying on the vine. There aren’t that many active education group blogs out there. Here are a few I know about that bring together bloggers from different places:

TechLearning blog

Infinite Thinking Machine

The Pulse

And then there are these that have multiple bloggers from the same place:

The Quick and the Ed

U Tech Tips

Any others that folks know about?

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