23 Things - Thing #7

I've been using Bloglines as my reader for several years and I like they way it works. It has made it easier for me to keep up with news sites and blogs that I like to read. It serves as my bookmark for blogs. I use the reader to keep up with technology news for professional and personal topics and I also use it to keep up with several blogs that deal with books and library issues. Big A Little A, American Indians in Children's Literature , and The Brown Bookshelf help give me different points of view on children and young adult literature. I did set up the Google Reader and found that it is very similar to Bloglines and now that I'm using my Google account for more services; the blog, documents, notebook and calendar I may switch all my feeds over to the Google Reader. A reader is a necessity these days just to keep up at all.

RSS readers can be used by students and staff to keep up with the latest news and headlines. Teachers could suggest appropriate blogs on specialized topics for students. Current events classes could certainly benefit from having students use RSS feeds to stay up dated on topics from diverse sources, not just the usual news sites. RSS readers could help teachers and students keep updated on classroom blogs and classroom activities that are posted to blogs. As more teachers use blogs parents could be encouraged to subscribe to the classroom blog and be easily kept up to date.

Kax's idea to add each participants blog to our reader makes sense to me and I've started subscribing as I scan the different blogs. Using the reader will make it much easier to keep up and participate. Thanks for sharing the idea Kax.