I love the RSS feeds and the Google Reader! After I set this up yesterday, I checked in several times. I have found it both easy to use and a more densely productive use of my time. It is like I now have a shortcut to the sites that I am interested in and the new material produced by the site has shifted to the top focus. It is a treasure of a discovery that I am finding very valuable. I have taken a big leap into productivity. I used to bookmark sites but the list was long and I rarely chose to visit each one to see what was new on the site. I didn't want to forget the valuable sites that I had found but I didn't know what else to do with them except to bookmark them. The Google reader keeps my high interest sites organized in one place with all new material highlighted for fast reference of new content. This is a very useful tool! I have easy access to news and blogs that I value but spend less time scanning for this content than ever. YEAH!
The Google Blog Search tool was the easiest to use and gave me the best results for the Spanish language classroom at the high school level. There were not as many matches as I had expected which means that I probably need to find better key words for my search. I was frustrated by the range of blogs listed as matches to my "Spanish teaching high school", sites for other languages and random high school topics. The recommended blog sites on the Moving Forward's List of Education Blogs gave me the most useful blogs for my content area. I could not find any matches on the Technorati's list site. We are adopting a new textbook series and I went to the list of recommended website resources and found myself disappointed when I did not see the RSS symbol as this is the fastest way to add new feeds to my Google Reader. Great Things - Things 7 and 8.
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