I've been "load all in tabs" with my bookmarks for YEARS now, so it's about time I save myself some time! I need to hook myself up with a reader. I love it: "It's like Netflix compared to the video store." I love that the infomation comes to you instead of making you waste the "trip" by loading a site if there's nothing new. Now, I can just go when I know there's something good!
I went with Google Reader. I like that it meshes with my iPhone and Google accounts (mail, calendar, etc.), and that it's intuitive after using the we-based Google apps. And, for data freaks like me, there's tons of infoporn (and no, I don't mean that stuff - I just mean images/data that are exciting to people who are curious about web use - I SWEAR that's safe for work)!
Using newsreaders will save me TONS of time -- not to mention bandwidth -- for stuff I do every. Single. Day.
I'll most likely use this technology in my professional life, not in my classroom (yet). I'll use it to keep tabs on what's going on in educational news and policy, plus keep track of what's going on in terms of best teaching practices.
I don't want to make my reader public, though; I sometimes read stuff that's not entirely family-friendly (read: things that others might find objectionable for whatever reason), so sorry, blogosphere! Here's something that I'll close the "interactivity loop" on!
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Summer -
There is a way to make some of your feeds public and keep others private. Click on "manage subscriptions", then tabs. I think you'll see what I mean. Click here to see how I share the professional blogs I read with others.
I think you are right on track with the idea of using your reader to keep up with professional reading, as well as other stuff. I rarely read much in print anymore - all of my professional reading is done in Google Reader.
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