I really enjoyed reading the recommended post, "How to Create Your Circle of the Wise" by Vicki Davis on her blog Cool Cat Teacher. It is very sage and timely advice. I think that I am going to copy down and display some of the quotes she used. I liked how she said to begin with one person you admire and then note the ones that they follow. This is a great way to have a high quality set of RSS feeds that really mean a lot to you and not just a bunch of posts that you see in your reader and never get around to reading.
Edublogs was very useful in finding good quality educational blogs. I like perusing the award winners and felt like it was a better use of my time. You can safely bet that these must be good blogs to be up for an award. I also liked how there were so many categories so that you can narrow down which ones you really want to delve into. Within these award winners under best library/librarian blog, I found Watch. Connect. Read which is found at mrschureads.blogspot.com His site is amazing! It is all book trailers. What a great resource. I also found Mighty Little Librarian that has some good middle and high school library ideas such as Book Speed Dating. Fun!
Google Blog Searching was pretty good too. I typed in several things and found a couple of good ones such as Growing Kinders-Using Technology in the Classroom.
I could not open Suprglu or Syndic8. Topix did not really point me to anything I was interested in.
Since I already used Technorati in the previous lesson on RSS feeds, I did not use it this time.
I can see how RSS feeds would really help a teacher, librarian, and administrator stay on top of the latest trends from many sources. While most of us already subscribe to certain organizations and we get their updates and can visit their websites, this brings the information right to you. It would be so useful to share information with staff members right away on timely topics.
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