I wasn't extremely impressed with many of the sites I looked at tonight. However, the one site I did like and could definitely see myself using again was delicious. I watched the Atomic Learning intro so that I could understand what exactly was going on. I had fun searching topics and finding ranked sites and reviews! I searched 5k training and the number one ranked site was one I have actually heard several friends reference. Obviously, a popular training guide and delicious agrees! Even more fun was searching for the most delicious brownie recipe. Boy did I find some great sites with baking advice from users, great pictures and videos! Delicious will remember sites you want no matter what computer you log in and this solves my problem of finding something I like and emailing the URL to myself. Very impressed with this helpful site!
Next I visited reader.google.com and was surprised that I already had subscriptions. I realized this is because I linked my blogger account with my Google account. Duh. This is not exactly a benefit because it is exactly as if I had been logged into my blog and saw my blog list. I cannot really think of many things that I track on a continual basis and not sure how beneficial this is for me. However, I can see how this will be a great tool for continuous education links. For example, keywords such as elementary, language arts, group activities, games... and so on.
Lastly, I visited the site Librarything.com and joined as a member just to see what the fuss was about. I took a quick little introduction tour to learn the ins and outs of the site. I think its neat that local events are posted... for example, June 18th an event about the movie Cars. Fun for kids and a great way to inform future students of learning fun in the community. Other events were obviously more literature related. I had a little laugh while reading the introduction of the site. It's setup exactly like a social networking site! A member can customize a homepage, add friends, receive updates on what books friends have recently added, comments, pictures, a profile bio and even a chat! (Does this remind anyone else of Facebook??) I added the book Water for Elephants to my book list. The one thing I did like about this site was that you could view recommendations and reviews on books. That is really the only way I ever get around to reading a book anyway, through a friends recommendation.
I am glad you liked Delicious. RSS (Google Reader) is a difficult thing for folks to understand. The main thing I am trying to do is plant the seed so that when you do see a need you may have some recollection of what it was about.
ReplyDeleteSome like LibraryThing, some don't. No big deal.
Thanks! :-)