When I left the classroom to become an Instructional Technology Resource Teacher, one task that befell me was to organize my eight drawers of two filing cabinets, eight shelves under the counter, and five shelves of books. After 20 years of teaching, the accumulation of “stuff” was overwhelming. Trash cans handy, I started pulling open filing cabinet drawers, and to summarize the common discoveries and things that I said out loud to myself was, “I had no idea that I had this” to “Oh I wish I would have known I had this when I taught such-and-such a unit!” Sometimes it can seem like this with blogs that I read regularly. There is not enough time to just sit and check each one nightly, so I do I know when something new has been posted?
Bloglines is an aggregator that is free (requires registration) that you can post your RSS feeds too of webpages, blogs, Wikis, and the like. Imagine just opening up ONE page and there, before your eyes, are update notices of what is new on your sites! Click here, click there, click click click! Imagine being able to streamline your day, and have time left to read a chapter of your favorite book…as the website says, grab a cup of coffee, and relax as you read!
