Thing #9 Education Feeds

I was amazed by the incredible number of ways to find blogs! The BlogPulse was easy to use and I searched for numerous specifics like keeping reading journals and assessing conversations. There are so many teachers blogging about this things!  I tagged some blogs and added a few more to my Reader. WHat a resource. Same with Google Blog search. I am just beginning to realize all that google has to offer. They just keep adding to their list of resources and organizational tools. I haven't jumped in to many blog/ning conversations yet, merely looked for good ideas. I need to find a way to mark them-highlight-tag et al. Not sure of how to do that yet but it would be useful in the future. I still copy and paste ideas onto a doc for me to print and try out in my classroom. Old-fashioned. One step at a time. I need to take another look at Diig for text notation.
Another issue: some of the feeds are easily added to my Reader and others don't seem to work or have the capability. I need to figure that out. I don't like to receive RSS by email (which the way I've been doing it in the past) because it fills up my mailbox with tons of stuff that I end up deleting due to lack of time. I like the Reader better because I can read it as I have time and it stays nice and neat behind the links! All that unread stuff gets overwhelming on a daily basis :-) My biggest problem continues to be that I want to RSS feed everything! It sounds like the same problem that we have with our kids- how to decide what you need- and sometimes that means taking it all and comparing and contrasting until you find what works. There's that time element again...