Thing 4, shut the door! (sounds like an old nursery rythme)

Commenting is important to the blogging community because that's the whole purpose - SHARING!
I particularly found the Ten Commandments of Blog Commenting interesting and informative.
I had never heard the term "Never Flame" before.

Dudley Griffen, Jeannie Bowman, Becky Brockman, Lesley Spicer, Corrie Heisey were the classmate blogs I chose. Dudley I know from a previous class and I liked his picture puzzle. Then I made one of my own. Jeannie is my neighbor and we talk on the phone to encourage one another through this marathon of a course. Becky and I became acquianted through this class and chat at the gym occassionally. Lesley and Corrie had info. on their sites that I could use.
The Cool Cat Teacher blog is a great blog of teachers as you have recommended.
‘absolutely intercultural!’ is another site I enjoy. I am not sure how I stumbled across this one but I love it. It is outside of my Clarksville world. The first article I read was about the Gaelic language and how it is dying out. I enjoy reading about international culture.
Well I am closing the door on the first half of my 23 things.
Signing off for now SKYBLUESUE

Thing 12

I set up a iGoogle page and enjoyed setting my theme on color scheme back ground - I love bright colors. I also set up a Google calendar. It will be neat to be able to use that instead of a planner that I am forever misplacing. I will be able to use this in many ways when teaching to keep track of my school life and my home life. In the past I have gotten myself in trouble keeping 2 or more calendars. With this tool I can keep one from any location since it is on the web! Hurray!!!

Thing 11

The google blog search was easiest to use.
The feedster link did not work for some reason.
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is one of the sites I chose.
This gives updates that are important to my cognate area of Math.
The most practical site I found was based on Exemplary Resources for Middle School Math and Science called Expert Voices. This will be a useful site.
MyYahoo has an easy way to add feeds just by clicking on the main tab and plugging in the RSS feed URL. Simple and fast!

Thing 10

This is a wonderfully convenient tool. The "RSS in Plain English" video was great.
Since I already have a yahoo account, I chose to set up my RSS feed to that site. It's sort of an all in one package. Yahoo even displays my avatar in thumbnail form, so I'm all set.

I think the advantage to using this tool in school is that it is a time saver and eliminates risky websites if students were searching the web. By using this tool the teacher knows what is going to show up.

To use this is the classroom all you would have to do is set up the RSS feed ahead of time and only allow access to the reader so that the students only view what you want them to. It is convenient for a teacher as a one stop site to check on updates from the school system or educational sites such as Cool Cat Teacher.

I've opted not to do the "Public Page" exercise. As I stated in a previous blog, we are a police family and I don't like to give information that can put us in jepordy. You can Google my family on line, but I like to keep our where abouts and personal stats a mystery. The mysterious life (or not) of SKYBLUESUE humor me here please :-)
Signing off for now SKYBLUESUE