Thing #9

Likes

Edublog has links to click on but I would like more info to let me know what I was going to see on the blog.

Technorati was the easiest to use but really not very attractive. It did have lots of information though.

The Google blog I liked because of the short information items with a headline.

Topix was useful and different from the others because it offered hometown stuff.

Dislikes

I did not like Bloglines. It was too wide open. You had to be specific with your searches.

Several links I used on School Library Blog were outdated (2007).

Syndic8.com has too many links with not enough info about what you were about to click on.... It was very confusing.


I found several things I would use...Susan Grisbys Google Handout, 12 things about a blog, RSS and podcast. This was a shortened version of what we are doing on this 23 things. Thought we might could use this when we offer mini classes to our teachers.

I found a post that had 100 Children's books that belong in every library. By the way, "And Tango makes 3" was on this list!

I used yahoo and just put in newsfeeds. Of course I got lots to choose from and I found one for the Presbyterian Day School. This is an all boys school Pre-K through 6. There were feeds from the Headmaster and then each grade, some for specific teachers. There were podcasts, calendars and pictures.

I did not add any RSS feeds to my Google Reader. I just really did not find anything that I thought was worth adding.

I still am not too crazy about using these feeds. It is an overwhelming task and have not found that I watch my Google Reader every day. hmmmm....