Thing #15 Staying Informed

I hesitate to put my RSS feed screenshot here as it is pretty obvious I use my feed for personal reading and I'm sure not putting my best "professional foot" forward! As I've said before, I am an avid blog reader and sometimes blog writer. I do a lot of surfing around sites that relate to home life, decorating, and cooking. For news I'm a pretty big NPR listener, so I don't subscribe to any news sites--and I read a couple magazines on my iPad. So if apologies are needed, here is mine! I've read a number of blogs for years and they are my "decompression" reading.

Could this be beneficial for my teaching? Absolutely. I do read some sites on a regular basis for school. I just wish there was some way to segregate personal from professional a little easier. I sometimes feel like I'm "on" as a teacher too much already--

Perhaps even better for this Thing, though, was that I made iGoogle my homepage. I LOVE IT! (All caps might not even say it forcefully enough!) I don't know how I missed this, but how great to have all my Google stuff at my fingertips.even added my Google calendar to my iGoogle--how's that for productivity--now that's what I'm talking about. The one thing I don't like is that I use my Gmail exclusively for student assignments--and so I've got work reminders staring me in the face whenever I go to my homepage.