Thing 5

I am regularly impressed/surprised by how technology is giving us so many new ways to define old words...subscriptions, for example. It used to mean (and, well, I guess it still kinda does... ;)), to pay to receive a magazine or newspaper. Now, when people talk about subscribing to something, they are talking about keeping tabs on the every thought and word published by friends and strangers to their liking!


For Thing 5, subscribing to feeds using the various ways on Bloglines was pretty comprehensive and could be completed with relative ease. The only blip that I ran into was that I use Google Chrome for my browser, and there is not a bookmarklet available for Chrome--YET! 


I enjoy both professional and personal interest blogs quite regularly. It is really kind of insane how much information is now available to us. Personally, I like to keep up with a variety of craft/design blogs, peek into the lives of a couple friends, and keep a finger to the pop culture pulse. Professionally, I enjoy blogs that offer technology tools and tips, insight into special needs education, and current events/legal happenings in the Special Education realm. 


A couple blogs I have come across that might be helpful to others: 
http://digitalplay.info/blog/ --A blog that highlights different web-based educational games to keep those techy students engaged in learning...and fun! 


http://www.patriciaebauer.com/ --A fantastic source of current events pertaining to and commentary on all things "Disability."


http://www.edutecher.net/index.php --A blog summarizing the newest and neatest techy tools for teachers! 


http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ --A source for technological wonders to use in the classroom. Aside from the suggestions themselves, the best part about this blog is the "Applications for Education" section. 


http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ --Larry is a man with an amazing ability to process and gather information made available through the Internet. His lists are simply miraculous! 


And, to end, probably my "most looked forward to" blog: http://thepioneerwoman.com/ --Ree is a woman extrordinaire. She does homeschool her 'punks' and occasionally will post education-related content, but really her blog is just a "feel-good-about-being-alive-and-wish-I-had-the-guts-to-live-on-a-farm kind of read." Those are just the BEST kinds of reads, don't you think?!