Thing 6
I’ve been subscribing to several blogs for about a week now. The amount of information is actually not as enormous as I thought it would be, and I have found Google Reader to be a great screening tool (I can read what I want and then trash the rest). I have really enjoyed reading posts from The Cool Cat Teacher Blog. Ms. Davis has many informative posts, yet they are all readable, entertaining, and strangely relevant to my life at the present moment. Take for instance her post, Are Webkinz just Crummy or a Tool to Use?
I don’t know how often I will continue to check my Google Reader once I complete this course, but at least I now know how to use it.
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April 13th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
I too was overwhelmed by the Google Reader. I even emailed Shelly and asked how to make the entries that I’d already read disappear. My brain went on overload when I saw 117 new items from the NY Times Science section alone! Genius that I am, I was initially trying to READ, not skim, but READ most of what my Reader picked up. I am much more adept at skimming and now I star those things at peak my interest. I guess it’s like everything else. As you master the task it gets easier and even starts to make sense. After this course is over I’ll subscribe to the websites that I’ve saved as favorites (trash and all) and delete most of the other subscriptions.
MBD