RSS Assignment #7

I added some Feeds to my blog reader. I can see why you need to put them in folders. This will make it easier to keep up with sites I'd like to. Just have to get in the habit of looking at things at least once a day.

Blog Reader--Assignment #6

I just set up my blog reader. I can see where this will save me some time. Just a quick click to see the web sites and blogs I want to keep up with. I subscribed to my brother Jim's blog about our family. This will make it so much easier to take that five minutes to read it. I also added a blog suggested by School Library Journal -a great weeding blog called "awful library books", a humorous look at the awful books some of us still have in our collection. I also found a couple of great children's book blogs called "The Well Read Child" http://wellreadchild.blogspot.com/ and "Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast", http://www.blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/ which should help in developing my children's section.

Facebook

I set up a face book page several weeks ago to view some pictures my sister-in-law had posted and didn't have a clue what I was doing. Suddenly, I had "friends" all over the place. I taught English and Theatre Arts for 25 years and began to hear from many of my former students. Some had very nice things to say about their time in my classes and send pictures of their families, so it was a real "feel-good" thing for me. I've been able to keep up with my nephew in California and my niece as she toured Europe. I'm still not sure what the real purpose is. It's more fun than e-mail and I plan to do one for the library to see what happens.