As I mentioned in my inaugural post yesterday, the impetus for creating this blog was to fulfill the first of five components in the "DPS Technology Challenge." For those potential readers who are not media coordinators in the Durham Public Schools system, this a sort of independent study version of professional development. Anyway, the second challenge was to start following other people's blogs with an aggregator, and/or establish a Twitter account.
I have been reading certain blogs for a few years now, by going to each of those sites directly. My favorite is Debbie Reese's "American Indians in Children's Literature" blog, which I highly recommend. I have to say that setting up eight blogs to feed into Google Reader is definitely more convenient than going to eight separate sites, and probably something I should have done long ago. In my defense however, most of the eight blogs I set up were those of other colleagues participating in the Challenge. Still, worth the time spent.
Since Google Reader was only an added convenience for the blog reading that I was already doing, I went ahead and set up a Twitter account also. I certainly do not anticipate tweeting much myself, but I do expect to get some useful and entertaining tweets from the 15 accounts I have initially chosen to follow. On the useful side, the professional associations, journals, and authors I added should be good for breaking news like immediate book award announcements and vital insider info on the books that my students and I love. On the entertaining side, I went ahead an added the sporting news feeds of my two alma maters, the Durham Bulls and the Carolina Hurricanes, as well as personal favorite authors & musicians. Since we are supposed to comment on each other's posts, I wonder if anyone reading this can guess which author(s) and musician(s) I am following on Twitter.
Enough for now. Next challenge tomorrow.
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