Thing # 9 (Week 4)
The hours slip away as I explore various blog sites. I explored the Edublog award-winning site at http://edublogawards.com/and-the-winners-are/
and found two blogs I particularly liked:

• Suffern Middle School blog. The teacher blogger provides a running commentary on projects done at the school using Second Life. I found the blog confusing to read b/c it is in reverse chronological order. There were so many posts I limited myself to a few and chose not to go back to the beginning. Pretty amazing stuff the staff at the school is creating. Take a look: http://rampoislands.blogspot.com/

• A Library By Any Other Name - an award winning library blog at: http://alibraryisalibrary.blogspot.com/. The librarian blogger appears to be a techie. She has a great avatar that clearly was NOT created on Yahoo. I would love to know how she did it. One of her posts was about mapping web sites. I mapped my school library website and found it very cool. See Web Sites as Graphs at: http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/

I did a "Blog Search" on Google using the key words "high school libraries." One of the best blogs I found included book reviews plus sites related to reading. Interested? Go to: http://wrhslibrary.blogspot.com/

Last week I signed up for the Reader's Club Latest Blog on Google Reader. When I was checking the site yesterday, I found a book review that I forwarded to one of my friends. I don't believe I would have come across that review otherwise.

I plan to unsubscribe to the NPR Topics Blog today. I am overwhelmed with the number of postings to that site. I keep marking them the updates "as read" because there are too many to read.

Go Pats!