Thing Eleven

I really should have read ahead.  It would have made Thing Ten much simplier for me.  I had trouble trying to find feeds.  I was not sure where to search or type in keywords.  I found some of the ones suggested on our 23 Things page D2L, but I wanted the news on my reader.  Where to look? I typed "news" into the search bar at the top of my homepage and when I hit enter it asked my if I meant to search for "feeds containing news".  Clicking this sent me to abcnews, CNN, etc. 

Finally, I saw the browse for stuff icon on the left side of the screen.  I just typed in my keywords and the blogs I was looking for popped up. Pretty simple, considering I figured it out on my own.  I guess I was a step ahead!  Even though I didn't know it.

The Google Blog Search was the easiest for me to use.  I did not really like using topix.net.  I know it had quite a bit of news on the homepage, but it seemed like there was more to weed through when looking for blogs.  The Google Blog Search did all the work for you.

I found useful and unusual feeds.  Useful ones are abcnews, CNN, and The History Channel.  All things that I would like to check daily in my personal and professional life.  CNN has a great segment on student news that is a video clip lasting about 10 minutes.  It is a great way to start or end class.  Many students never read headlines and the student news keeps it short and sweet.  I found some unusual feeds on knitting and yarn.  I did not subscribe to them because it is not something that I want to read everyday, but I am glad to know that they are there.  Also, one of my hobbies is running 5K's on the weekends.  I found a blog entitled the Couch-to-5K Running Plan.  Cute!  It is similar to active.com in that it gives runners tips on training and where races are held.

Eleven down and twelve to go!