DAVID WEES

Thoughts from a reflective educator.

BC Educators who blog

December 12, 2010

Thanks to Chris Kennedy ( @chrkennedy on Twitter), who is blogging at his Culture of Yes blog, I have a list of BC educators who blog.

Chris makes the good point that we should follow the local bloggers in our area and also find out what is happening in our neighbourhood. As interesting as the international conversation, it is equally important to each us what happens near us.

I'd love to see a service which attempted to map blogs by location of the author(s) and general topic area... has anyone got a list of their local bloggers?



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