{"id":21271,"date":"2025-10-07T13:21:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=21271"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:20:02","slug":"scotsedublogs-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/scotsedublogs-update\/","title":{"rendered":"ScotsEduBlogs Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a few years of laying fairly fallow I&#8217;ve got a bit of time to work on <a href=\"https:\/\/scotedublogs.org\">ScotEduBlogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The site had chuntered on mostly under its own steam for a while. Mostly auto-updating, all I need to do was to keep the site &amp; domain up and running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>ScotEduBlogs is a site that aggregates and shares posts from Scots Educational Blogs running <a href=\"https:\/\/scotedublogs.org\/about\/#:~:text=History\">since 2007<\/a>. It also posts out links, for the original posts,  to <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.scot\/@scotedublogs\">mastodon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/scotedublogs.bsky.social\">bluesky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve retired from teaching this summer so hopefully have a bit more time to promote the site. I&#8217;ve just added a few sites into the mix:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bluecollar240.blogspot.com\/\">Blue Collar<\/a> whose author submitted the form, first in a while.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/idlnetwork.substack.com\/\">The Interdisciplinary Learning Network<\/a> this blog moved from WordPress to Substack, with permission I added the feed from there.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/firth.substack.com\/\">Memory and Metacognition Updates<\/a> Jonathan Firth moved to Substack too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I am hoping to find some more, these sites have certainly increased the diversity of posts aggregated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I think it is valuable to read the voices of educators at all levels.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I am doing this as a &#8216;hobby&#8217; I like blogs and blogging. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It doesn&#8217;t cost much. I am not making any money from SEB. The domain, hosting and a bit of time I can manage.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I am fascinated by the technology, especially RSS aggregation and re-distribution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I like reading blogs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can you help?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d like to add more voices to the site. If you know an educational site with a feed (Blogs or substacks for example) please let me know about it. If you blog about education send me your site. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/scotedublogs.org\/add-your-blog\/\">fill in the form<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:ScotEduBlogs@icloud.com\">send me an email<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please pass this on, I am a lot less networked than I was in the noughties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the main problems with SEB that is run by me. Andrew McLaughlin&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewjmclaughlin.blogspot.com\/2022\/11\/spaces-to-share-our-thoughts.html\">pointed this out<\/a> a while back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>this currently hinges on centralised moderators to update and organise the aggregator.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot say I disagree. I&#8217;ve never turned down a request for addition other than sites that, don&#8217;t support RSS or ones that are not about education in Scotland.  Having seem the <a href=\"http:\/\/teachmeet.pbworks.com\/w\/browse\/#view=ViewAllPages\">number of spam pages<\/a> that have been created on the teachMeet Wiki I don&#8217;t think automatic inclusion is an option. 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