On a Stick: 3 January 21, 2008

I love my Google Reader . . . it is a great way to keep up with what is going on ‘out there’ in addition to keeping up with what is going on with MILI.  Since I didn’t need to set up an RSS aggregator for Thing 3, I decided to do a couple other things.  First, I went through my list of subscriptions and deleted feeds I don’t really like.  (It’s a pretty good clue that you don’t like a blog if, after reading it for a while, you start clicking ‘Mark All as Read’ even though you haven’t read any of the posts )

Then I decided to look through my “starred” posts to see which blogs I star the most so that I could recommend the blogs which have been most useful for me.  However, this appeared to be an overwhelming task since I have starred hundreds of posts and there is no way to put them in order by blogger.  THEN I discovered the “Trends” option in Google Reader . . . Lo and behold, the Reader keeps track of my Top 10, Top 20, and Top 40 blogs according to how many times I’ve starred the blogs’ posts!  Yea!  So, according to my Trends (and excluding MILI blogs), my most-starred blogs are

Librarian in Black

Tame the Web

Larry Ferlazzo’s Website of the Day for Teaching ELL . . .

Web 2.0 in the Classroom

Now that I think about it, this isn’t a truly accurate depiction of my recommendations because I often do not star the valuable postings . . . Rather, I often go out to the sites a blogger recommends and then add them to my “favorites” for future exploration.  Therefore, based on my own subjective preferences rather than the objective Trends, I also recommend:

Doug Johsons “Blue Skunk Blog“

Joyce Valenza “NeverEndingSearch“

Learning 2.0

Then, I added these seven blogs to the blogroll on my blog.  Of course, my preferences will probably change as I discover new blogs, so from now on, I’ll just update the blogroll.

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