Thing #10

I chose Google Reader because I think it was actually the simplest one and made most sense to me. I already had an account so it wasn't too hard to set it up. With google reader, even if you don't know a name of a blog or website that you would be interested in following, you can just put in keywords and different websites and blogs of interest will come up. So, say you want to subscribe to a blog or website about wine. All you have to do is click "add subscription" and then type in "wine" and all kinds of different websites and blogs on wine will come up. It will also show you how many subscribers each one has so you can determine which ones are popular.

Having a google reader set up comes in handy because it is just one place you can go to to check all of your favorite websites and you can see as updates to each website are made. It's better than having all of your favorite sites listed in "my favorites" because you can go to one place instead of visiting each site. I subscribed to Cool Cat, Betty Crocker Recipe of the Day, Wine Lovers Page, Stephenie Meyer's website, the knot.com, and Fox News. I can use this in my personal life to keep up to date on what is going on in the news or friends' blogs, etc. I can use this in the classroom if I have my students set up a blog. I can subscribe to their blogs to see when they are updated instead of having to visit each individual blog.