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=**Welcome to rate-a-blog where teachers discuss, evaluate and contribute to an array of educational/technological blogs**=

=== In a world where technology has taken precedence over the textbook and blogs have replaced the journal, determining the reliability of information is now part of a reader’s job. There are thousands of blogs, and to submit a simple Google search does little to help narrow down a reader’s choices. One could spend countless hours skimming through each, trying to figure out if it has the substance you are seeking. So why not work together on this search to find all of the great blogs? === === This wiki provides a location where blog readers everywhere can come and post at-a-glance ratings on the educational blogs of their choice. Below you will find our rating system so that all blogs can be judged on the same criteria. The original contributors are not experts in the blog rating field, but we know what we like and don’t like and we would like to share our opinions with all of you. === === This blog is a work in progress. You will find some blank pages. It is our hope that others will want to contribute to this project, making it a truly global endeavor. Also, you can find each contributor's blog on the resource page. They are newly made so we did not include them on our rating pages. Feel free to check them out as well. ===

=**Our "At-A-Glance" Rating System**=

We judged these blogs on the following criteria:
=== **Professionalism**: Is this blog a place to vent or is it about the classroom? We all need to complain once in a while but this wiki wants to point out the blogs containing information we can bring back to our classrooms. ===


 * 1 A waste of broadband space**

All of the criteria elements are lacking in some way. This blog may not be a great source of educational information.

 * 2 Disappointing**

There are more criteria elements lacking then those that are strong. This blog might be one to skim through or only check occasionally.

 * 3 Worth a look**

Most of the criteria has been met however some are lacking. It is still a blog worth seeing.

 * 4 Informative**

One criteria category may be lacking a bit but it is well worth it because of the high levels of the other pieces in the criteria.

 * 5 Indispensable**

=**Contributors**= Aadeforge - Secondary Mathematics Teacher, Overhills High School, Harnett County, North Carolina Sawoods - ICT Teacher in the International School Community. lewisse190 - First Grade Teacher, St. Bernard's School, Saranac Lake, New York DVanOtteren - Sixth Grade Mathematics Teacher, Glynn Middle School, Brunswick, Georgia Dennis-Wealllivedownstream, educator and general gadfly, Ithaca NY