4a. I joined the RSS reader called Feedspot. I have never used a reader before. I can see how this would be useful in my personal life because I can reduce the amount of reading material that is sent to my inbox. I can keep the information and read it later when I have the chance. I get a lot of information from ALA and I am going to see if I can get much of it sent to Feedspot instead.
At school, it would be a useful tool for collecting articles about a given topic that teachers are currently needing for a unit or content area study. There are so many educational websites and instead of going and searching through what each site has to offer, I could have the specific topic information sent to my reader. It would save me time and it would be so much more efficient.
I can see high school or middle school students using this technology to collect articles needed for a research project.
4b. I added the following to my reader to begin with:
Huffington Post, Nerdy Book Club, Edudemic, Joyce Valenza-Never Ending Search.
I found these easily in a couple of ways. First, the Nerdy Book Club and Never Ending Search have been mentioned in several classes and they are excellent to keep on hand. I just typed them into the search box.
I found the Huffington Post by clicking on news category within Feedspot.
I found Edudemic by searchng within Feedspot for technology in schools.
I tried to use "Feedly" but got bogged down within connecting websites. It was a mess. I was glad to get out of there alive. I also tried to use LJSeek for Live Journal feeds but found it very confusing and not user friendly.
Another method I plan to use is to look within my current bookmarked sites and see which ones I want to transfer to Feedspot. I also plan to ask other colleagues for suggestions.
Oh yes! I also added a feed "Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the day", one of the suggested sites on our class wiki page.
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