Caution: Blog/feed searching is in fact addictive. However, it isn't as clean of a process as I thought it would be. Maybe it was just me, but when I used Google Blogsearch, or Technorati, I came up with a lot of irrelevant websites and newspaper articles, which I guess is a kind of old school blogging if you count the section of the paper where readers can submit their comments and elicit responses from the editor. I found Google Blogsearch to be more familiar and user friendly and I did come across some pretty great science blogs. For instance: Beyond the Goggles is written by a middle school science teacher who shares the tools and ideas she uses to help her students see "beyond the goggles" and that science is all around us. Another: Science Teaching Junkie has some great classroom ideas that can be applied in a high school as well. Other tools I used to locate newsfeeds included just searching through Feedly and also looking through the blogs of others who have commented on posts I've read.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Thing #11: Finding Feeds
Caution: Blog/feed searching is in fact addictive. However, it isn't as clean of a process as I thought it would be. Maybe it was just me, but when I used Google Blogsearch, or Technorati, I came up with a lot of irrelevant websites and newspaper articles, which I guess is a kind of old school blogging if you count the section of the paper where readers can submit their comments and elicit responses from the editor. I found Google Blogsearch to be more familiar and user friendly and I did come across some pretty great science blogs. For instance: Beyond the Goggles is written by a middle school science teacher who shares the tools and ideas she uses to help her students see "beyond the goggles" and that science is all around us. Another: Science Teaching Junkie has some great classroom ideas that can be applied in a high school as well. Other tools I used to locate newsfeeds included just searching through Feedly and also looking through the blogs of others who have commented on posts I've read.
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I agree, it is not a clean process to look for blogs. An important thing to remember about anything we are looking for on the internet which has become a flood of information. I have to remind my students when they are doing research papers and using the internet, that they must use a filter to help them find the relevant material and keep out the junk.
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