Working with Edublogs & Google Reader
Finally!!! After much trial & error, I finally have some of the Google Reader feeds in my sidebar. I am using Google Reader because I can access Google at my school (except for gmail). I am not sure what other things are blocked. I may not be able to read all my feeds while at school because some of the blogging sites are blocked.
I have enjoyed looking through a lot of blogs, but I subscribed mainly to some tried and true ones I already knew about. I like Kathy Schrock’s things on Discovery. I’ve enjoyed watching her tweets (and Leslie Fisher’s) about their new iPhones. They keep me in stitches–talk about kids in a candy store!
There was one for 1st & 2nd Grade that I’m going to watch carefully in the upcoming year. I didn’t find too many elementary blogs, but this one looked like it would have some info I could use.
Cool Cat Teacher’s site has piqued my interest since joining wikispaces. She does a Flat Classroom Project that was highlighted. Well, many years ago, when I first graduated college, I was a kindergarten aide in Westwood Schools, Camilla, GA. I was only there a year before I joined the faculty at the public school there. So I’ve been interested in following things at that school.
Due to AETC, NECC and this online class, I have subscribed to so much lately, I am not sure what is what. I will say that del.icio.us is probably my very favorite thing. I had Ikeepbookmarks.com, and have just added it to delicous. Del.icio.us is SO much easier. I love the tagging. Then, I read about diigo, and wonder if I should try it. I’ve decided to let it go for a while. It’s kind of like buying a computer…the minute you do, there’s something better out there. Oh well!
The beauty to me of all this, is the fact that after our class is over, we will be able to go back and tweak all that we’ve gleaned to suit our needs. Yes, it’s overwhelming at the moment, but as we settle into the school year and working with the kids once again, we will find which things work best for us. Thank goodness we don’t have to be proficient in 6 weeks!!! I’ve always thought I was pretty tech savvy, but mastering edublogs & rss, etc. has shown me that I don’t need to be too smug! (I am still one of the tech queens at my school, but that could change any day too!) We will always have learning opportunities. I try to tell that to my students–that we never stop learning just because we graduate!
That’s it from the lab for now!
July 15th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Barb,
Thank you for commenting on my blog. I feel so lonely, but I know that some of our class will eventually visit me. About Del.icio.us–I wanted to set up there but haven’t done it yet. How do you use it? I know you put favorite website on it,etc., but do you use in another way? I think I’m going to use Google Earth in my virtual field trip I am planning about Birmingham. It is a marvelous invention! My husband wanted me to ask you if you know anyone that attends The Springville Baptist Church. He preached there in the early 70’s and remembers some people by the name of Terry. Well, got to go to my campus class at Troy University on Technology in the Curriculum. Boy! do I stay busy! See ya.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
When I set up my del.icio.us account, it installed a toolbar in my browser. It allows me to tag any website to put in my favorites. When I am on the website, I click on the tag at the top of my screen, and it allows me to give the website some tags (such as, web2.0, education, games, hearttransplant, etc.) You can assign as many tags as you want so that you can find it again. Then, when you click on the square for del.icio.us, your bookmarks show up and you can sort them by the tags or look at everyone’s at once. You can look at other people’s sites. Go to mine del.icio.us/barbsmith57 and look at what mine looks like. After you get it set up, I’ll tell you more.
Yes, I know lots of folks at the Baptist Church. The Terrys are well known in Springville. Ann Terry taught school with my husband, her daughter Lisa teaches with him now, son Brian is a principal over my sister-in-law. If those are the Terrys you mean. Small world!!!