Blogs can be great research tools, but it can take time to find what you’re after. Here are some suggestions getting started with research blogs.  

But before all that… if you’re wondering why academics should bother with blogs, here’s a link to an article demonstrating the potential for blogs to achieve much more significant readerships than journals.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/adventures-in-blog-land/2006/07/01/1151174437503.html?page=fullpage

Searching for Blogs 

There are a number of search engines that allow you to search blogs for information on a particular subject. Here are just a few (these are general rather than academic); 

• http://technorati.com/ 
• http://search.blogger.com/
• http://blogsearch.google.com/ 

Academic/ Research Blogs 

Here are some directories of academic blogs to start with. 

• http://www.crookedtimber.org/academic-blogs/ 
• http://www.blogscholar.com/ 
• http://www.academicblogs.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page 

Teaching resources 

If you’re thinking about making more of blogs for teaching then Bronwyn Clarke’s blog is worth a visit. Bronwyn from TLC also has a research interest in blogs, her blog has lots of links to academic blogs as well as a particular focus on online teaching and learning. Her blog is http://melete.wordpress.com/ 

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