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I should have already posted on my study but I have been distracted! I am planning to follow the PISD staff and their blogs. I want to see how many who originally started blogs, whether in this class or in one of my blogging classes, will follow though. I am interested in how many people will read other blogs and how many might even end up starting personal blogs. I am interested to see if teachers will eventually see this as a valid learning vehicle.

I’m hoping to see more communication between campuses. There is such an awesome body of talent in this district and not being from here I don’t know may folks at other campuses very well.

I’m like to see more cross communication between districts in the area and this seems like a great way to facilitate that but so far I can only find librarians playing.

I am teaching a class on the sixteenth on blogging the next step - hoping that folks who have started a blog will come learn some ways to tweak things, how to create and use static pages, upload pictures, and more.

My subject is still vague but I’ll work on that. I don’t teach students so I had to improvise a bit.

I have a secondary possibility - I have access to computer usage data but I’m not sure what I could do with it so unless I get some inspiration it will be blogging.

There are a lot of ways to subscribe to blogs and news. I’m going to talk about the three web-based readers that I am most familiar with. If you have a different preference I would like to hear about it.

The first one is Pageflakes. Signing up for an account is free. Pageflakes allows you to create multiple pages with tabs across the top for moving between pages. You also have the option to make pages private or shared. There are multiple “flakes” you can add to your pages like local weather, message boards, and calendars. You can add feeds to blogs you read and any other site that generates an RSS feed.

Another site that lets you do many of things is NetVibes. NetVibes is a free web-based news aggregator and also lets you do a lot of customization. Both NetVibes and Pageflakes are very visual. Both will let you drag the pieces around the page to rearrange them any way you want. For me this usually means that the ones I read the most migrate to the top of the page.

A free newsreader that is not so visual but lets you sort your reading into folders is Bloglines. Here is a tutorial for using bloglines but there is also a lot of information on their website. I have used all three of these and find them all to work great - it just comes down to a matter of personal preference.

The best way to find blogs that interest you is to check out the blogroll on the sidebar of the blogs you have seen. Another way is to do a search by category on Technorati or Google Blogs.

You can see an example of a PageFlakes page here.