This morning (Australia time), EduBlogs chief, James Farmer announced that he is now hosting over 100,000 bloggers on Edublogs.
What more can I say, last week we passed 100,000 edublogs and we’re extremely happy about it 🙂
Of course this isn’t even a drop in the bucket, compared with all of the teachers out there, and that’s not to say that everyone should be blogging. But considering the barriers that remain in many parts of the world to blogging, the lack of awareness that still exists among, what I would judge to be a vast majority of educators, the continuing lack of reliable bandwidth that schools, even in the richest communities, I think that this is an astounding feat.
I think that it would be interesting to see a breakdown of these users. Head back over the the EduBlogs post and offer a congratulations to James.
The insurmountable piles of assessments and other government mandates placed on teachers also keeps them from blogging, or at least from being aware. That and worksheets are easy.
David, I have a few ideas about this claim on my website.
Whenever I see these claims, I think of the quote “There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics.”
Tim,
I’m not sure why you would say something like this. Do you have any reason to believe that Farmer is lying? I can’t think of why — since, to my knowledge, he is maintaining EduBlogs as a service of the heart to educators.