Thing 11

It was really interesting looking through all the options for searching for blogs, and even just discovering how many blogs there are. It seems like an endless amount! I found Google blog search to be the easiest to maneuver and after reading some of my fellow classmates blogs, I see that it seemed to be a unanimous consensus on that. It was so simple to use and I was able to just type in "special education" and "elementary school special education" and find blogs on so many issues and topics. It would be a wonderful tool as a teacher.

I found Technorati to be the most confusing method because it was a lot more complex and I am sure that avid RSS users would probably maneuver it with ease. However, for us first time users, I think that we need something a little more straight forward and user-friendly.

 I found one blog in particular called "Teaching With Love and Laughter" which was a wonderful and adorable blog that covered so many topics of education and how to teach with love and compassion for your students. It gave examples of stations to have in your classroom for writing, art, math, etc., and it even has this wonderful tab on the right side of the website that has common core standards. The best part about this site was that as a teacher, you can create a site like this and have it available for parents to visit daily and see what is going on in the classroom and see the standards that their children are learning. 

To find more blogs and posts, I just continued to use my Feedly account because to me, it is the easiest of all. There are definitely some limitations to what you can find just on Feedly, but it is very user-friendly.