Thing # 11

I have been checking out RSS feeds, and made a very convenient discovery. I no longer need to access Netvibes to add an RSS feed as I thought. Internet Explorer has a place for RSS feeds right on the favorites bar. This will now make it much easier to add and later view my RSS feeds.

With that said, let me get back to Thing 11. I found Google Blog Search to be the easiest to use, and Edublog's award winners was unappealing; not confusing, but unappealing. I noticed no pattern of indexing that would allow me to search for a site that interested me. I would have to just keep looking aimlessly until I stumbled onto one I found interesting. I am too busy to waste that much time.

The site I found through Google Blog Search, Education Next; Teachers and Teaching, seemed very interesting. I have not had time to fully explore it, but it seems to have commentaries, blogs, and comments from readers, that address current and pertinent educational issues from how are we to replace the expected loss in teachers when the baby-boomers retire, to what President Obama is trying to do with regard to educational reforms. I look forward to following this news feed.

Now that I have found an easy way to add RSS feeds to my browser, I'll be looking for that little RSS feed icon on every website I find interesting.