Thing 10

I have been looking through the many image generators and I cannot believe how many are out there. It would be fun to print them out and hang around the school. I'm not sure how the post it image works yet, but I think it would be a great tool for teachers to use when evaluating students English papers. Students could post their papers for review by the teacher and the teacher could make comments without actually writing on the paper. I think image generators have a multitude of uses. This is new to me so it will take some time to become more familar with using them.

Public Page & RSS thoughts

I was reviewing Thing 8 and decided to try and create a public page. I don't know why I was worried about it being difficult. It was super easy. Here is the link to my public page.

I have been telling my husband about RSS feeds and what they do. He is now interested and will be learning this week how to create his own feeds. I love checking one page for all my news. I am looking around for new feeds to add to my reader, but I need to be careful. I find that it is easy to put too many items into my reader and then not have time to read it all. I have used Bloggers site to search for new feeds and it brought up thousands of sites to choose from. I need to narrow my search area.

Thing 9

I used the discovery tools and looked through all the sites provided to see how they might help me locate RSS feeds that would be of interest to me. I did locate one using Bloglines search tool. It is a children's book review site. Most of my feeds came from sites I visit frequently so I didn't really need to search for them. Another search tool I liked was Syndic8.com. I tried Feedster a few times and each time the site was down. I liked how the page looks set up and will try again later. It looks more user friendly than the other sites I reviewed.

Thing 8

For a while now I have wondered about the RSS button. I finally know what it is and I am using it. It was very easy to set it up and add url's to my page. I have always enjoyed reading the news and now it is even better. I am able to link to what I want to read without getting a lot of information that I don't want. RSS usually allows the user to be very specific in what information it delivers. Plus, I can delete it whenever I choose to.

As a teacher, it would be especially helpful in social studies. Many countries are frequently changing names or leaders and RSS feeds can keep students and teachers posted about countries they are researching without a lot of other news. Personally, I am using it to stay on top of new cars (I'm shopping around), new technologies, and news events. As a librarian, I want to be able to see when new books are released. I have a feed for Book Sense and now I am trying to add an RSS feed from the NYTimes bestseller list. I am having a little trouble finding the url for this particular site.

Here is a link to my Bloglines account.
I can't remember when I created this account, but I need to work on it soon. This is the link to my public page with Google Reader. http://www.google.com/reader/shared/01366153850376477684?hl=en