I initially went to Google Reader only to find that I already somehow had an account going. In this account I was already following two blogs. The two blogs I am following on Google Reader are two of my classmates in Educational Technology, and their blogs were viewable to me immediately. I subscribed to three additional sources to achieve my goal of 5 subscriptions. The three subscriptions I chose to follow were: Dangerously Irrelevant (because the name was interesting, and Dr. Wall recommended it specifically), The Leaf Chronicle (to keep up to date on local happening news and events, and CMCSS (Clarksville Montgomery County School System). I was surprised to find that I could follow the newspaper and our local school system.
I like that RSS brings my interests to me all at once instead of having to google and locate different topics in different areas. I'm looking forward to taking advantage of the newsreaders, as I'm already somewhat familiar with following the Leaf Chronicle on Facebook, so I'm hoping it's a similar idea.
This technology is a great way to quickly keep up to date on things important to me, my life, or my job. It may assist my classroom if it saves me time to focus on other things for my students.
Teachers can use Reader for following a certain subject that may be necessary for their class, or what they are teaching at that time. It also again may save them time in other areas so that they can put more time towards other projects. Time for teachers is very important.
I still really enjoy the feel of internet searching, especially when it comes to random searches or discovering new things, so I don't know if I would fully rely on Reader, but it's a neat new internet tool I may find a reason to use.
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