Okay, I have a confession to make...I'm not a big blog fan...It's just that blogs are so random...their professional, personal, informative, casual, all at the same time! If I'm going to read a blog I'm going to read it for ideas on how to be a better teacher or future librarian. The people that I go to for inspiration are published writers, so they are not going to blog their brilliant ideas for free! Maybe some of you can recommend worthwhile blogs to me.
While working through blog search tools I found that http://edublogawards.com/ had a nice, comprehensive list of educational blogs. I wish that their list had a comment about what the blogs where about.
I love tidbits of news, so http://www.topix.net/ is really cool. I really liked how it’s organized by local, national, and international news. I couldn't find anything on education on http://technorati.com/.
Some blogs that I found that I liked and could relate to are http://www.teachersatrisk.com/ and
http://bettyb.teacherlingo.com/ Betty has some great tidbits for daily teaching.
Maybe as the school year starts and I get ideas from the blogs they'll grow on me!
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I have to agree with you, I am not a big blog fan either. I guess what makes me feel this way is that I feel like I don't have anything meaningful to say and no one would want to read it. I really like edublogawards.com as well. They had some great blogs that I think that I might get to use. Hang in there...blogs will eventually grow on us!
ReplyDeleteI'm with you Melinda, it can get so complicated. It's not just individuals who blog either! Now there are organizations who have their own blogs. School Library Journal and YALSA have various blogs connected to their organizations. Blogging just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
ReplyDeleteHi Melinda!
ReplyDeleteI also am not a fan of blogging. I feel like I have so many other things to do and interests, that I balk at the time needed to keep up with blogs. With that said, I also am going to be in the Library Science program at UHCL. I start this fall. So if you find any blogs of interest to that field, please let me know. I'll be glad to do the same for you.
By the way, please give my regards to your husband.
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