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October 10, 2012
- Kathy’s basket
- RSS Guide for Educators (a work in progress!)
- What are educators’ professional obligations to learn from social media channels?
1. Five education blogs to get you started
- Google Reader (see also Google Reader hotkeys)
- Dangerously Irrelevant
- Free Technology for Teachers
- Will Richardson
- EdWeek TeacherBeat
- EdWeek Living in Dialogue
2. Six more education blogs that every educator should be reading
- The Answer Sheet
- Reinventing PBL
- Education Rethink
- Powerful Learning Practice
- Cooperative Catalyst
- Burkins & Yaris
3. Other education blogs
- Education Elements (Jason Glass)
- Des Moines Register Education Blog
- Iowa TransformEd
- Education in Iowa
- This Week in Education
- For the Love of Learning
- Jose Vilson
- Larry Ferlazzo
- The Tempered Radical
- User Generated Education
- SpeEdChange
- Stump the Teacher
- Education Evolving
- Diane Ravitch
- ASCD Inservice
- EdWeek Rural Education
- EdReach
- Larry Cuban
- CNN Schools of Thought
- Huffington Post Education
- See also all of EdWeek’s blogs
4. Educational technology blogs
- MindShift
- Hack Education
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog
- 2¢ Worth
- Langwitches Blog
- Moving at the Speed of Creativity
- Ideas and Thoughts
- Generation YES Blog
- The Blue Skunk Blog
- Steve Hargadon
- Stager-to-Go
- The Edublogger
- Assorted Stuff
- The Fischbowl
- 21st Century Collaborative
- EdWeek EdTech Researcher
- EdWeek Digital Education
- DML Central
- OLDaily
- Angela Maiers
- 1-to-1 Schools
- Edudemic
5. Educational leadership blogs
- Connected Principals
- Practical Theory
- A Space for Learning
- Principals Page
- The Principal of Change
- A Principal’s Reflections
- Learning in Burlington
- The Principal’s Posts
- 21k12
- Culture of Yes
- NAESP The Principals’ Office
- NASSP Principal’s Policy Blog
- EdWeek Transforming Learning
- EdWeek School Law Blog
- NSBA Legal Clips
- NSBA School Board News Today
- SchoolFinance101
- See also Principal Blogs
- See also Superintendent Blogs
6. Subject-specific blogs
7. Maximizing your reader
- TreeHugger, Mashable, Perez Hilton, etc.
- Des Moines Register, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Quad-City Times, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Omaha World-Herald, Sioux City Journal, etc.
- New York Times, CNN, USA Today, Huffington Post, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, E! Online (scroll to bottom), Perez Hilton, etc.
- ISU News, U. Iowa News, Drake U. News, UNI News?
- Google Reader search (e.g., woodworking, wine, Minnesota Vikings, crafts); see also Technorati categories
- Google Alerts
- rssWeather or Weather.com
- Package tracking
- Feed43Â turns any web page into RSS feed
- Convert Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, and other channels into RSS feeds
- Convert Delicious bookmarks into RSS feed (see also my Delicious bookmarks)
- Send from Google Reader to Kindle
- Other Send To options
- Sharing Google Reader bundles
- 10 things you didn’t know you could do with RSS
- 50 things you can do with RSS
- 100 cool things you can do with RSS
8. Got an iPad or smartphone?
Miscellaneous Resources