Back to School

Tomorrow I head back to work and will start working on a new blog and wiki that is supported by my school district. Our library blog for our students is up and running AnyKindofBook . We wil use our work in progress library wiki for our staff.

Thing #9 Blogs and News Feeds

Wow - I am overwhelmed. There are so many blogs and so much information out there! I can see why it is so easy to spend hours reading blogs and trying to keep up on everything. I did like the article How to Create your Circle of Wise on Cool Cat Teacher Blog. It was a great introduction to how to choose what blogs to read and subscribe too. Looking through the different search tools listed, I found that Technorati and Syndisc8.com were very easy to use. I did not care for Topix.net. I added several educational blogs that will be great to pass on to my staff along with more Library blogs that I hope to find time to read!

Thing #8 RSS Feeds

This is what I have been wanting to learn how to use and did not know it! There are so many great blogs and websites out there that I love to keep up on but did not have them organized in one place. It was fairly easy to set up a Google Reader and I know I will find myself checking it regularly for new information. I already have folders for personal and school links!

This fall, instead of sending out an email newsletters to my teachers, I would like to set up a blog that I can share information with them as I learn it. The contact would still be through email to the blog link, but everything would be in one place so they can read as much as they want each time they check the blog. I would include a link to my shared posts through Google Reader. Of course this will work better I our district starts allowing accessing to Blogs! Does anyone else do something like this with their staff?