RSS Reader Summer Cleaning
I’m pruning my reader list and adding a lot of new feeds after NECC. First, if I met you at NECC, and I could locate a blog you wrote on semi-regularly, I’ve added it to my feed. I’ve taken out feeds that have been moribund (no posts for over a month, and sporadically before that). I’ve come back to a dead blog before myself, so I’m not 100% convinced that this will be a wise move, but I’ve heard from some readers that they use my list in the sidebar to find blogs, so I wanted it to be accurate for those people.
You will note the absence of many top blogs (based on technorati, Scott’s list, whatever). I am still a classroom teacher. I have limited time to go through my feed reader. Most of those bloggers are a little too prolific for me to keep up with, if I subscribed to all of them so choices needed to be made. I am also making an intentional choice to read blogs of my peers (teachers in practice), and folks like myself who are coming up to give them a boost. We can’t talk about edublogging being the same old voices talking to each other when we don’t make an effort to listen to others outside the sandbox. I have to walk the walk. I will be looking for other teacher blogs to add so this is not a final list. Happy reading!
Phew! I’m glad to have made the cut. I think Jose blogs at Wooden Nickelz vs. Coordinator’s Office now, no? I’l check out the blogs I haven’t seen before, I appreciate your recommendations.
You are a blogging teacher, that I have met, and that I have an ongoing online relationship with, that makes you make the cut automatically. You would have a harder time if you were not in a school, and we had never met or exchanged a call/email/some personalized online communication. You also have some great stuff. You meet all of my criteria and then some. Thanks for the tip about Jose.