RSS and Bloglines

So I never knew what RSS meant until now... I've always wondered, but I never took the time to learn. I know; shame on me. I'm glad that this class forces me to learn things like this that I should already know. RSS means Really Simple Syndication, and it helps you follow web pages by subscribing to them. A lot of pages are constantly updating, so it really helps you stay on top of those updates. There are a lot of online services that help you manage these subscriptions. The one that I used is Bloglines. Bloglines can also help you search for blogs and other websites that you might want to subscribe to. I definitely used it for that, and I found some fun, new websites. I also used some Top 100 lists to find blogs, and I liked this method best. Since they have so many followers, it stands to reason that they are good sources of information. It was also very handy to use the blog rolls of these blogs in order to find related blogs.

I found two excellent blogs that I want to follow. They are Cool Cat Teacher Blog and A Striped Armchair. Cool Cat Teacher Blog focuses mainly on how to implement technology in teaching. This is something that I kind of shy away from, so it'd be nice to have a blog that gives me fresh ideas on how to do this. A Striped Armchair gives reading challenges and book reviews. I'm always interested in hearing other people's opinions, and it will also introduce me to new books. The reading challenges will also help give me ideas for my future students' reading.