RSS or Really Suitable Sites

I found several great sites but not many I would want to hear from daily. You would really have to be passionate about something to want to hear from them daily. I don't even talk to my dad on a daily basis. I guess that is why I am the technology alien. Anyway, I subscribed to "Kiss the Book" blog because I was familiar with this incredible site and know it has some great information. I will be ordering for 7-9 grades so I also subscribed to the tweendom, okay I haven't yet. I thought I had but when I went back to get the name correct it wasn't there. Anyway, it has some information which I may find helpful in selecting books for the order. I also do not see "Geek Dad" which I thought I subscribed to. This is a site full of geeky projects dads can do with their kids. Since we are one big happy family at school, I thought we could use some there as well. Off to see why those two did not show up in my Feeds. Oh, after I feed the dog! So much to do!

So many blogs, so few worth reading

So I searched for subjects relevant to me: LEGO and creative writing, not together of course. I started very specific with both, LEGO MindStorm NXT 2.0 and poetry. I was given one match total and that was a poetry sight. This was the case with both types of searches. I decided to focus on a more general LEGO search with LEGO MindStorm. This still found 0. Only when I searched for LEGO were any sites found and then I had to wade through blogs not worth the screen they were displayed on. Remember when we use to say, "Not worth the paper it was written on."?

I think I can do without Technorati. In order for great blogs to be available, the blogger needs to know about Technorati. Now, I know I had a barn when I was growing up (I did not actually live in it) but Technorati is just not well known to the general public that I hang around.

I was also very disappointed "education" was not a category.

Yum, that was del.icio.us

I attempted several searches on delicious. I found the results very helpful. I have recently been given the opportunity to lead the LEGO MindStorm afterschool club. I searched for building ideas for not only the MindStorms, but the WeDo as well. I found a lot of great information.

Also, the word for next year is I will be a traveling LA teacher, as well as the librarian. If I keep my bookmarks in delicious, I can access my resources from any and all classrooms I may be teaching in throughout the day.

As for the students, they are not assigned a single computer. They can be working at several computers throughout the day. If they could save their sources on delicious, they would not have to search again for those great sites.

DELICIOUS!

Wiki Worries

My wiki address is as follows:

technologyalien.pbworks.com