How-to video: Organizing blogs using Google Reader
Brief synopsis: Teachers in today's technology classroom are likely reading plenty of education technology blogs. Education blogs are an excellent form of free professional development and technology education. Since the blogosphere is becoming saturated with millions of bloggers, it can be difficult to decide what to read and difficult to keep up with your favorite education bloggers and their new posts. Enter Google reader, a Web 2.0 application that helps blog readers aggregate and organize the blogs they read into one place. Any blog you subscribe to with Google reader is then automatically fed into your reader and organized based on your pre-set preferences.
Benefits: Google reader is a powerful Web 2.0 application that allows technology classroom teachers who are reading education bloggers, to collect blogs and blog posts and organize them into categories and folders. Anytime a teacher subscribes to a new education blog, it is automatically fed into Google reader, so the teacher can easily find it. New posts show up in Google reader minutes after they are posted to saved blogs. Google reader organizes blogs into folders and categories, so they are easy to locate. This is especially helpful if you subscribe to dozens, or even hundreds, of blogs. Google reader allows users to read their subscriptions on any computer, laptop or smart phone with Internet access. Google reader allows users to share blogs with other Google reader users.
Drawbacks: Google reader may be blocked by some school districts' network servers, because it is a form of social media.
Conclusion: The how-to video above demonstrates how today's technology classroom teachers can subscribe to education blogs using Google reader.
