The place to go for all the latest and best blog posts about English language teaching

There are so many English teachers blogging out there these days (and there are so many facets to ELT) that it can be pretty hard to know which ones to follow, or which ones you're missing out on. I have a few personal favourites that I visit quite regularly (like Alex Case's TEFLtastic, Lindsay Clandfield's Six Things, Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day, Burcu Akyol's Blog, Shelly Terrell's Teacher Reboot Camp, and Karenne's Kalinago English), but I also like to visit new ones and - most importantly - just go to the actual posts that are likely to be of some personal interest to me.

So eventually I found OneStopBlogs, an offshoot of the popular OneStopEnglish service from Macmillan, and all my wishes were granted! Basically, most of the ELT blogs worth reading register themselves here, and all the posts for all of those blogs are accessible from one central place.

In addition to a handy top stories page, OneStopBlogs has an ongoing and regularly updated listing of all blog posts. Very easy to use, very informative - a great way to get just enough information about each and every post to help you choose quickly and easily what's worth reading in more detail. I glance through this while the kettle's boiling, then sit down with a nice cup of strong coffee (maybe a chocolate biscuit or two, if my wife allows it...) to read the full posts I'm interested in.

I'm also a bit of a fan of their Blog Site Stats page, where you can see their ranking of the Top 50 English language teaching blogs (very happy to note that I've gone from 19th place to 8th as I type this - or is it because I'm typing this?? Exactly what sort of tracking tech are those guys using over there?), a ranking of blogs based on Readability (happy to see I'm just over the cusp into Thomas Pychon range while Mr. Case is in the Scientific Journals category - that's what you get for using too much sarcastic language, Alex), and even lists based on Most Active, Wordiest and Friendliest blogs.

   

Anyway, it's a fantastic resource for following ELT bloggers in terms of finding the current posts that you're most likely to want to read - all in one place. Thoroughly recommend it.

   

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Comments

[Alex Case]

Agreed. It's at least a once daily place to go for me. Unfortunately, a lot of your must go to blogs don't appear on the latest entry part of the site (e.g. Burcu's), perhaps due to RSS feed probs, which is why I also have a look at here in case I miss something:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=TFePoRs63hGU_Dy5ZMag4A

[Jason Renshaw]

Great additional tip and feed link there Alex - cheers!

~ J

[Jason Renshaw]

My quip in there about maybe heading up the rankings based on me advocating this site appears to have backfired! I was 8th before I wrote the post, and 10th after I posted it!