RSS and Newsreaders

Creating a Googlereader account was an interesting experience for me. I didn’t even know such a thing existed. It was fun for me to experiment and add different sites and blogs where I can find information on topics of interest. This way I can be informed when new posts are put up on the blogs or news is updated without actually having to go to the site to find out.

I explored several blogs before deciding which ones I would like to blog about. The first blog, which I thoroughly enjoyed, I found that is both fun and interesting is The Daring Librarian. It is colorful and fun to look at. This blog was nominated, as well as a finalist for, the best librarian/library blog 2011 Edublog Awards. This librarian shows that we librarians do not have to fit the “norm” of what people think a typical librarian is. We can create fun new ways for students to learn, actually enjoy the learning process, and want to come to the library. This site has links leading to other places where this librarian has information on this site that leads to Flickr, electronic portfolio, various learning and technology wikis, a school library blog, or 2.0 tools. This blog shows that the librarian is keeping up with technology and using it to help her students. If I need ideas on how to do wikis, blogs, etc. I can look to see how she has created and implemented these.

The second blog I chose to explore, which I found useful, was 025.431: The Dewey blog. This blog has all the Dewey Decimal Categories and explains what is in each. It also posts information about new books and which categories to place them. As a librarian, I would find this blog helpful because I want to see where other librarians are categorizing their books and learn more information about the Dewey Decimal system. This is not the most exciting website, it’s technical with mainly just text, but it is necessary information for cataloging.