I can not say enough about my experience with Google Reader. I can now get my sermons, crafting news, classroom management news, scrapbooking news, and many more. I am able to look at them and have read up to indicate that I can’t loose them. This makes me happy. The podcast of NPR are there for me to listen to when I please just as my sermons are also. Using Google, I was able to subscribe to “fun things” and educational things. One of our students has Tammy Worcester’s Tech Tips which had things I could use NOW WOW. What I really like is that when I subscribe, I get all of the back issues and can go to them as I please. I have the Google Taskbar which shows the Reader on the side of my computer and will pop out for me to see more. This tool is cool.

I have noticed that blogs have different writing genres. Some are formal, others are conversational, still others are academic. Many are impressive to me as a newbie to blogging.

Reading blogs are like having conversations with the author and looking at he comments is like listening in on a conversation. Maybe I am in a booth and overhear a conversation, then I am allowed to comment and it is a welcomed comment by all. Being someone who likes to know what’s going on, reading blogs are great for me.

The writing of a blog sometimes is like a newspaper article, or a letter to a friend. It often share the authors feelings so it is personal in nature.

Commenting contributes to the writing and meaning by allowing insight into others opinions of the blog and allows answers to questions by the blogger or another commenter.

There may be blogging literacy but for people just getting into blogging, it is not a formal way of doing the blog thing. Blogging may affect the way one reads and write but I have noticed that one read and write the way they usually read and write, so if used in teaching, corrections may be made in grammar, etc. if it would add to the learning experience.

I could see how blogging could facilitate learning by providing another means to get input from the teacher and peers. Also a way to express themselves. I have read at least 5 of the blogs and kept reading instead of writing which is why this is so very late. It is late now but I am happy to get this posted so I can forge on!

Speaking about the blogs I read, 

1 dy/dan (Mr. Meyer)

Link to how he spends his instructional minutes was most informative.

As I looked further into this blog, it was more and more interesting.

Thing 5 RSS

As I read about RSS I was so happy to learn what it really stood for and this helped me be able to subscribe to sermons which I have wanted to subscribe to for a long time. I thought since I did not have an iPod or iPod phone, I could not get it. So now I can go to Google Reader and hear my sermons.

Making a Difference by Ben Grey is one feed I subscribed to which led me to the Testimony of a student who gives a reason to continue. See the video for yourself. You decide!

Thing1: Reflections on Lifelong learning

Lifelong learning is a integral part of my life. I am one who seeks constant and never ending learning to take place in my life and in the lives of all whom I come in contact. I teach my family and students that one should never stop learning.

The habits included in the 7 1/2 Habits are very applicable to me. I am in a stage in my life where I am taking stock of all aspects of ME. So a challenging habit is Habit 1 which is begin with the end in mind. One must figure where they are going in order to begin with the end in mind. I am reading a book SHED and learning of myself and where I am going. Though this habit is a challenge it is also IMPORTANT to me. As I use the features of Web 2.0 and figure how I would like to see it used in a teachers life, students life, and other stakeholders in the education of our students, I get closer to begining with the end in mind becoming a part of my thinking process.This is THE Key to success for me as I reflect on my life’s experiences and this contains many aspects that play a role in success, such as, organization, evaluation, assessment, …

Along with the Habit 1 being an IMPORTANT habit, I find that Habit 5 would be invaluable to create a toolbox for the Web 2.0 and as a certified School Library Media Specialist who has not worked in the field yet, the toolbox should be carried over to the Media Specialist position which will allow me to gain and organize the necessary tools to be an exceptional MS. This habit would help any teacher as well to have all items of a learning chest together in one tool box creating a peaceful year because they have begun with the end in mind.

Realizing Habit 3 of viewing problems as challenges is already a major part of the way I see things, it was the MOST RESONANT of the habits. When trying parts of the Web 2.0 tasks, only challenges are seen by me. I also look at the way others are posting and want to know how’s that done. I was interested to see that on our forum, someone had their picture. I looked around and figured out how to get one on for me. So there are no such thing as a problem in my vocabulary.

Looking forward to more learning taking place in the Web 2.0 Saga.

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