#Scotedublogs #openscot - Why you should blog and Why you should join this Aggregator

If you dig back in this blog you will see that one way or another I have been blogging since the turn of the century. It's never without its challenges but for me it is a key part of open practice. It is a positive way of moving things forward. 

There was a sudden flowering of the Scottish Educational Blogosphere around 2005. In this context mainly school based folks. One of the great platforms that emerged from that period was and is  #Scotedublogs a simple aggregator of Scottish Educational blogs. 

As an educational blogger it was great to have some company along the way, at least for a short for a while. 

At one point I even managed  find some sponsorship to help it grow.

Championed by John Johnston one of the many unsung heroes in Scottish Education. 

It is probably needed again more than ever.  In time of enshittification etc It is good to have something that anchors the disparate but very authentic voices of those working across or around Scottish Education. We are doing a wee bit of a push to re-build this 'community' of Scottish Edubloggers. 

This sits well with lots of other things I support around Open Education. #openscot 

All you need is a blog or similar with an RSS feed.

And then all you need to do is make sure your blog is listed. 

Here are some suggestions.  

I could go on a bit of a rant 

1. If you work in and or around Scottish Education you should have a blog or similar.  A critical part of professional development review in my view.
2. If you train teachers or have a role in developing staff - you should be showing students and staff all how to blog and or create a shareable professional journal.
3. If you work for General Teaching Council in Scotland you should have made this part of registration a very long time ago.  
4. I am an old hand and still use Blogger - it serves it's purpose. But if I was to start again I would start by using free wordpress and then migrate to A domain of my own from Reclaim Hosting. ( I have my own domain already).  
5. Colleges and College staff have been particularly absent from the blogosphere. This currently means the sector is pretty much stifled as there are very few established voices talking about current College challenges in a sensible extended way.  

All I do is publish this blog - as it is listed in Scotedublogs it will appear on feed and be syndicated to Mastodon and Bluesky.