Thing 11

The Edublog's award winners page was amazing! There are so many blogs to explore. I found a language arts winner and also a teaching category winner. I can't wait to have all of that information right at my fingertips in my Google Reader.
I liked the fact that on the Technorati site you can search the blogs by keyword or tags. They also have a list of the top 100 blogs which was interesting to explore. I found the Google Blog Search to be the easiest to use. Bloglines was fairly simple as well. Basically anything you ever wanted to read about is there! It's unbelievable! I think the only problem I have now is that I may end up subscribing to way too many feeds. With all of that knowledge just floating around out there, it's hard not to drink it all in at once. Now that I know about these tools and what they can offer me, I feel like I'll never turn back. I can only move forward now in my technological journey, which is a good thing.
All of the search sites I used had their own good features. I think I would just use certain ones depending on what I was trying to find. I found some feeds on Army life and also some useful ones on how to incorporate literature into the classroom. I also subscribed to the English Blog. You can go to any search engine site and type in newsfeeds and tons of results will appear. Also, I have just been checking the websites that I visit regularly to see if they have an RSS button.
What is so ironic is that for years I have been using the web. Never once have I paid enough attention to see the RSS feed buttons or to even question what they were. Now every time I'm on a website, I find myself searching for that little golden button.
I checked out the link to the feedicons web page. I think I need to download that now that I know all about RSS feeds and the like. What a great little gadget!