Thing 9

I went to several of my favorite websites, but did not see the RSS feed icon, so I did not add any feeds to my RSS reader. I went to many of the suggested search sites and found that many were well laid out and would be very useful to use with high school students, such as Topix. However, I am an elementary school librarian and do not feel that I would use most of them with my students. I did not like Syndic 8--I felt that that layout was very confusing. I got frustrated with Google Blog because even though it was very straightforward and easy to use, (and I was searching blogs), I came to sites that were not blogs, but websites-- one site was a library's online catalog! I would love a way to search for a particular person to find if they have a blog, but as of yet, I have not been successful with that. I came up with many people blogging about the author or educator, but not that particular person's blog. Either I am not searching correctly, or the people I have searched for do not have blogs. I did add one blog on my blog list that hopefully will be useful. I was disappointed that the School Library Blogs on superglu could not be displayed this morning. Hopefully that site is only down temporarily. I can see how RSS feeder would be a useful tool make your life simpler with information coming to you, but I am still trying to see how I will have the time to read all the pertinent information during my professional day.