Google Reader

I just had my first experience with Google Reader and I have to say that it was quick and painless. It was also very easy to do. I like that I don't have to pull up 5 different tabs to look at the updates made on a blog. The first blog I chose was I.N.K. Interesting Nonfiction for Kids. I really want to make reading a fun thing for kids to do and if I know more about books that are different from the norm, I may be able to inspire more kids who would have rather just quit. From this blog I learned about different books and received a slight review on them. This helps me to know if the book could be used in my classroom. The other blog I chose is called School Food Matters. I think that nutrition is very important and a lot of times the school food is just not as healthy as people might think. I picked this blog because I want to learn more about this topic. From this blog I learned about the things that people are doing to try to make foods more nutritious. I shared my reader documents with someone so hopefully they will respond and find them interesting. Click here to see my Google Profile.

• What is a blog syndication and how does it differ from your previous strategies for information gathering? A blog syndication is refers to making web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary of the websites recently added content. This is way different from the previous ways I gathered information in that I would have to open up multiple tabs and search for what I was looking for. Now the updates are there and easy to find.
• What does RSS stand for? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.