Trying Out BLOGLINES

As Wikipedia defines, an RSS Feed is:

“…a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video – in a standardized format.^[2][3] or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content quickly and automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. RSS feeds can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader", or "aggregator", which can be web-based or desktop-based. The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds.” An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed",

I've subscribed to 10 RSS feeds including Education Week, New York Times: Education, Autistic Society, and PBS Learning Now, and a bunch of awesome blogs which you can access listed on the side of my blog. All of these sites contain information that I are useful for inclusion, CTT classrooms, and even some innovative technology ideas which I'm looking forward to trying out! Here's what my Blogline looks like:

I would definitely recommend trying this out. It makes my internet surfing a whole lot easier. I don't need to bother with bookmarking or remembering the names of the sites that I like to look at daily for education information. Of course, Bloglines can be used to collect RSS feeds about anything, but clearly, technology and education information are my main purpose for collection at this time.