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Top 100 Education Blogs
Top 100 Education Blogs
www.onalytica.com [email protected] @onalytica
Over the last 5 years there has been a sharp increase in the number of education blogs in various areas such as
art education, technology, creative writing, mathematics and drama, from primary school level to lifelong
learning approaches.
Despite this surge in education blogs, there haven't been many attempts at classifying the blogs according to
their authority. We will present a ranking of education blogs ordered by their Onalytica Influence Index.
The Influence Index we compute at Onalytica shares the same idea with the impact factor that nowadays all
academic journals publish on their cover. Essentially impact factors just represent what is common wisdom;
that some publications matter more than others, and impact factors attempt to quantify this. Similarly, the
Onalytica Influence Index measures the "punching weight" of education blogs compared to one another.
At Onalytica we have been in the business of measuring influence since 2004. Our methodology is based on
the Input/Output model developed by the Nobel Prize winner Wassily Leontief.
The model takes into account all references and citations between the blogs. Using this model, we developed
three measures: Influence Index, Popularity and Over-Influence.
The Onalytica Influence Index is the impact factor of a blog, or how much that blog matters.
Popularity represents how popular or well-known the blog is among other education blogs.
Over–Influence seeks to capture how influential a blog is compared to how popular it is. There is a strong
correlation between how popular or well-known a blog is and its influence. However some blogs carry more
influence than their popularity leads us to believe; this is what we call over-influence.
Below we present a list of 100 most influential education blogs ordered by their Onalytica Influence Index.
The most popular blog in our list is Larry Ferlazzo's blog, however it is not the most influential. Its over-
influence is 0.8, meaning that the blog carries only 80% of the influence we would expect from how well-
known it is.
The most influential is Dan Meyer's blog and its Over-Influence score of 1.6 means that the blog carries 60%
more influence than we would expect from its popularity. Similarly, the Hack Education blog, the second most
influential, is more than twice more influent than its popularity would lead us to believe.
If a blog is over-influential, i.e. his over-influence is greater than 1, there is only one explanation: those who
reference or cite the blog are themselves influential blogs.
Please contact us if we have missed any blogs or you would like more information on our influence measuring
methodology.
London, January 2013
Top 100 Education Blogs
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Rank Name Website Influence Popularity Over-Influence
1 Dan Meyer's Blog blog.mrmeyer.com 100.0 90.9 1.6
2 Hack Education hackeducation.com 72.6 39.4 2.4
3 The Principal of Change georgecouros.ca 62.3 63.6 1.4
4 Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day ... larryferlazzo.edublogs.org 51.7 100.0 0.8
5 The Learning Network learning.blogs.nytimes.com 49.0 36.4 1.7
6 Dangerously Irrelevant dangerouslyirrelevant.org 46.4 54.5 1.2
7 Ideas and Thoughts ideasandthoughts.org 38.9 36.4 1.4
8 The Blue Skunk Blog doug-johnson.squarespace.com 34.8 45.5 1.0
9 Free Technology for Teachers www.freetech4teachers.com 34.8 72.7 0.7
10 The Thinking Stick www.thethinkingstick.com 34.4 30.3 1.4
11 David Wees davidwees.com 33.7 21.2 1.8
12 Practical Theory practicaltheory.org 32.9 27.3 1.4
13 Langwitches langwitches.org 29.7 33.3 1.1
14 Getting Smart gettingsmart.com 28.6 21.2 1.5
15 Ewan McIntosh's edu.blogs.com edu.blogs.com 28.2 30.3 1.1
16 Stephen Downes www.downes.ca 27.5 24.2 1.3
17 Annie Murphy Paul anniemurphypaul.com 26.2 21.2 1.4
18 Cogdogblog cogdogblog.com 25.9 27.3 1.1
19 Open Thinking educationaltechnology.ca 25.9 30.3 1.1
20 Moving at the Speed of Creativity www.speedofcreativity.org 25.5 45.5 0.8
21 21 Century Collaborative www.21stcenturycollaborative.com 24.2 9.1 2.1
22 Around the Corner-Mguhlin.org www.mguhlin.org 23.8 15.2 1.6
23 Vicky Lora's Blog vickyloras.wordpress.com 22.7 42.4 0.7
24 Will Richardson willrichardson.com 22.6 30.3 0.9
25 Dougg - Off the Record dougpete.wordpress.com 22.4 24.2 1.1
26 The Learning Spy learningspy.co.uk 22.1 15.2 1.4
27 Burcu Akyol's Blog burcuakyol.com 20.6 18.2 1.2
28 David Warlick davidwarlick.com 20.5 21.2 1.1
29 The Number Warrior numberwarrior.wordpress.com 20.2 12.1 1.5
30 Shanker Blog shankerblog.org 20.2 33.3 0.8
31 Continuous Everywhere But Differentiable Nowhere samjshah.com 20.1 33.3 0.8
32 Let's Play Math! letsplaymath.net 20.1 6.1 2.1
33 Learning in Hand learninginhand.com 20.1 12.1 1.5
34 This Week in Education scholasticadministrator.typepad.com 19.7 24.2 0.9
35 Nerdy Book Club nerdybookclub.wordpress.com 18.0 24.2 0.9
36 Assortedstuff www.assortedstuff.com 17.9 21.2 0.9
37 Irish Teacher Blogs irishteachers.tumblr.com 17.8 9.1 1.5
38 Diane Ravitch's Blog dianeravitch.net 17.8 69.7 0.4
39 Jeremy Harmer's Blog jeremyharmer.wordpress.com 16.9 30.3 0.7
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40 Graham Wegner gwegner.edublogs.org 16.5 9.1 1.4
41 Krissy Venosdale venspired.com 16.0 21.2 0.8
42 Reflections of a Techie teachingtechie.typepad.com 15.7 6.1 1.6
43 Ozge Karaoglu's Blog ozgekaraoglu.edublogs.org 15.7 27.3 0.7
44 Education Next educationnext.org 15.5 36.4 0.5
45 David Truss :: Pair-A-Dime for Your Thoughts pairadimes.davidtruss.com 15.4 27.3 0.7
46 Hooked on Innovation hookedoninnovation.com 15.3 12.1 1.1
47 Creative Star Blog creativestarlearning.blogspot.co.uk 15.2 3.0 2.0
48 Librarian in Black librarianinblack.net 14.8 9.1 1.3
49 TransformEd transformed.teachingquality.org 14.8 12.1 1.1
50 The Reading Zone thereadingzone.wordpress.com 14.1 9.1 1.2
51 Kevin's Meandering Mind dogtrax.edublogs.org 13.9 33.3 0.5
52 C-o Connections coconnections.wonecks.net 13.8 6.1 1.4
53 4C in ELT fourc.ca 12.8 18.2 0.7
54 Jay P. Greene's Blog jaypgreene.com 12.6 15.2 0.8
55 Eduwonk.com www.eduwonk.com 12.5 15.2 0.8
56 Sean Banville's Blog seanbanville.com 12.1 15.2 0.8
57 The Wejr Board chriswejr.com 12.0 27.3 0.5
58 Nyceducator nyceducator.com 11.8 21.2 0.6
59 Beyond School beyond-school.org 11.6 3.0 1.5
60 A Journey in TEFL evasimkesyan.edublogs.org 11.2 18.2 0.7
61 My Island View tomwhitby.wordpress.com 11.0 21.2 0.6
62 User Generated Education usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com 10.9 12.1 0.8
63 The Jose Vilson thejosevilson.com 10.8 6.1 1.1
64 Reading by Example howeprincipal.wordpress.com 10.6 12.1 0.8
65 Opencontent opencontent.org 10.2 3.0 1.3
66 Infocult: Uncanny Informatics infocult.typepad.com 10.2 3.0 1.3
67 Linking and Thinking on Education www.joannejacobs.com 9.9 6.1 1.0
68 Action-Reaction fnoschese.wordpress.com 9.7 15.2 0.6
69 Jim Burke: The English Teacher's Companion jimburke.typepad.com 9.6 9.1 0.8
70 Maria Constantinides - TEFL Matters marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org 9.6 30.3 0.4
71 Learning in Burlingtion www.patrickmlarkin.com 9.5 15.2 0.6
72 Primary Tech primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au 9.5 24.2 0.5
73 Jabiz Raisdana www.jabizraisdana.com 9.5 6.1 1.0
74 Higher Ed Watch higheredwatch.newamerica.net 9.4 6.1 1.0
75 Social Tech fraser.typepad.com 9.3 3.0 1.2
76 Blogging About the Web 2.0 Connected Classroom blog.web20classroom.org 9.1 12.1 0.7
77 Reflections on Teaching mizmercer.edublogs.org 8.7 12.1 0.7
78 Blogush blogush.edublogs.org 8.6 15.2 0.6
79 Cathy Nelson's Professional Thoughts blog.cathyjonelson.com 8.6 9.1 0.7
80 Not so Distant Future futura.edublogs.org 8.5 9.1 0.7
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81 The Unquiet Librarian theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com 8.5 9.1 0.7
82 Levdavidovic levdavidovic.wordpress.com 8.3 6.1 0.9
83 MathsClass mathsclass.net 8.3 9.1 0.7
84 Two Writing Teachers twowritingteachers.wordpress.com 8.3 9.1 0.7
85 Eduflack blog.eduflack.com 8.1 12.1 0.6
86 Danah Boyd www.zephoria.org 8.1 3.0 1.0
87 Life is Not a Race to Be First Finished allanahk.edublogs.org 7.9 6.1 0.8
88 The Electronic Pencil epencil.edublogs.org 7.9 9.1 0.7
89 Year Two Blog yeartwo.chorltonparkblogs.net 7.9 6.1 0.8
90 Agnostic, Maybe agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com 7.8 6.1 0.8
91 Earth Science with Mrs. Wilson mrswilsonscience.com 7.7 3.0 1.0
92 Doug Belshaw dougbelshaw.com 7.6 12.1 0.6
93 A Recursive Process blog.recursiveprocess.com 7.5 3.0 1.0
94 Teaching Chemistry blog.msbethea.com 7.5 3.0 1.0
95 Sherman Dorn shermandorn.com 7.4 6.1 0.8
96 So You Want to Teach www.soyouwanttoteach.com 6.7 6.1 0.7
97 Penelope Trunk homeschooling.penelopetrunk.com 6.4 3.0 0.8
98 South Dublin Libraries www.southdublinlibraries.ie 6.4 3.0 0.8
99 Allthingslearning allthingslearning.wordpress.com 6.4 15.2 0.4
100 The Adventures of Library Girl www.librarygirl.net 6.4 3.0 0.8
