Thing 10

I already had a Google reader and an RSS feed. I saw Thing 10 and just had to jump ahead so that I could use this feature. I had actually forgotten about this feature until I saw it on the 23 Things list. Many of my fellow students have amazing ideas that I didn’t want to miss because I didn’t have to time to click on each blog to check for new updates every day. I am already subscribed to 45 other blogs that I have found prior to this assignment. Actually, I’m going to take this opportunity to get reacquainted with this feature and to remove blogs that no longer interest me. In my personal life, I use this technology in order to keep up with the bloggers that interest me. I have cooking blogs, intellectual blogs, and even humorous blogs that I read just for fun. In my professional life, I could begin to use my reader in order to follow other teacher blogs, and even to follow fellow students for inspiration during college. Many teachers have blogs in order to share their ideas with the rest of the world. I can “beg, steal, and borrow” ideas from other teachers and modify them to fit in my classroom. For example, keeping up with teacher blogs I enjoy gives me the opportunity to see how well lessons have worked for other teachers. Also, networking is a key part of becoming a professional. I can use the RSS feed to meet other teachers and build a professional relationship with them.