A few of my favourite things
I am really enjoying the challenges being set by the blogging group at Edna… it is keeping me on track, or I could so easily wander away and just think about things, or use them and not always share them. The sharing aspects of Web 2.0 are some of its greatest strengths, so I think it’s only fair since I have learned so much by others sharing, that I should make the effort to share as well…
The task this week is to discuss some of our favourite blogs… I use google reader to read through the blogs. Mostly I skim, until something grabs my attention, then I usually check out the post on the site. I had been using email links and del.icio.us to read through blogs, but found as I get so many emails catching up with blogs often got lost, and the same with bookmarking them, I seldom went back to check for updates and changes. With my Google account I check my mail, and then check my reader… I have different folders set up for a range of themes. I have a folder for the Redback Project blogs I monitor, so I can see at a glance when they are updated, rather than having to go to each site, only to find no changes. I do also use my iGoogle page to keep up to date with some sites as well, more of the news sites, or tutorial sites.
Now… some of the blogs I read regularly include several which have already been mentioned (oh dear, there are close to 200 in my reader… I won’t list them all 
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Sue Water’s Edublogger and TAFE blogs are brilliant – the ideas and guidance, I owe a lot of my journey to having read her blog.
The Fischbowl by Karl Fisch, one of the creators of the Shift Happens video
Dangerously Irrelevant by David McLeod – another of the Shift Happens creators
Learning 2.1 a continuation of the 23 things project
and many of the blogs from BloggingCorner08 – an edna group… I have been reading Tania’s blog Brave New World a lot, some great stuff
Michelle Martin’s The bamboo project
The Age technology news, on my phone google news
There are so many wonderful blogs out there, I often wander through reading and linking to my google reader. Some are busy others less so.
I have been loving reading the blogs from my peers participating in The Redback Project – a 23 things style of project – it has opened up some even better relationships and discussions.