Follow These Folks!

When I first started reading blogs created by friendly folks willing to share their discoveries with me, I would bookmark their sites in my browser. (Actually, they willingly shared them with the world, but so very often their posts seemed to be written directly for me!)  But then when one of these educators would reference a post from someone else and I would bookmark their site.  Soon my list of bookmarks became unmanageable.  

Sometime back, my major professor had shown me how to set up an RSS feed in Google Reader.  I didn't mess with it much, but once my list of professional bookmarks became as cluttered as my desk, I realized this was the best solution to managing all the blogs that I wanted to "follow".  The following video tutorial from Google is helpful in getting started:

Here are links to some of the folks I follow, in alphabetical order, in my On Purpose Professional Learning folder in my Google Reader:

21st Century Collaborative (Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach): http://www.21stcenturycollaborative.com/blog/

An iPad Idea a Day (Joe Dale): http://ipad366.posterous.com/

bit by bit (Bob Sprankle): http://bobsprankle.com/bitbybit_wordpress/

Bud the Teacher (Bud Hunt): http://budtheteacher.com/blog/

Cool Cat Teacher Blog (Vicki Davis): http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/

Digital Writing, Digital Teaching (Troy Hicks): http://hickstro.org/

edgalaxy.com Cool Stuff for Nerdy Teachers (Kevin Cummins): http://www.edgalaxy.com/

Effective Teaching Articles (Lisa Frase): http://effectiveteachingarticles.blogspot.com/

Free Technology for Teachers (Richard Byrne): http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Guys Lit Wire: http://guyslitwire.blogspot.com/

Kevin's Meandering Mind (Kevin Hodgson): http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/

Langwitches Blog (Silvia Tolisano): http://langwitches.org/blog/

Learning is Messy (Brian Crosby): http://learningismessy.com/blog/

Moving at the Speed of Creativity (Wes Fryer): http://www.speedofcreativity.org/

National Writing Project: http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3791

Social Networking for Schools (Edmodo Blog): http://blog.edmodo.com/

Teaching with Technology in the Middle (Steve Fulton): http://stevefulton.blogspot.com/

Technology Bits Bytes and Nibbles (Cyndi Danner-Kuhn): http://www.technologybitsbytesnibbles.info/

The Book Whisperer (Donalyn Miller): http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/book_whisperer/

The Laura Robb Blog (Laura Robb): http://blogs.scholastic.com/laurarobb/

Tips, Tools, and Technology for Educators (Lauren Grossberg): http://blog.learningtoday.com/

Watch. Connect. Read. (Mr. Schu): http://mrschureads.blogspot.com/

Check out some of these sites for great ideas and inspiration.  I'd love to hear suggestions from you about other folks to follow!