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My RSS Feeds: (via Google Reader) See the list of RSS feeds and explanations below...

For your first blog post, list your choices along with a description of why you chose the feed and how it is important to your profession. You are writing to inform your audience about the particular site. Link either the title or text within your description to the original site for reader access.

RSS FEEDS

1. The first group of RSS feeds come via Edutopia.org and a group of the site's bloggers starting with executive director Milton Chen and his blog site.  Edutopia and Chen are constantly listing informative ways to bring education and teaching into the 21st century through technology in the classrooms, differentiated instruction, and a host of other significant pedagogical insights. I also subscribed to Dr. Katie Klinger's blog as well. Dr. Klinger hosts blogs that discuss grant writing and technology integration. Since I am always trying to find ways to acquire money for my school programs I am hoping her knowledge on grant writing will be helpful. The third blogger from Edutopia that I am following is  Heather Wolpert-Gawron.  This particular blogger is a language arts teacher in California, writes for Teacher Magazine and Imagine Magazine and her innovative uses of technologies in her classroom have been very intriguing and inspiring.

2. The next RSS feed comes from the National Middle School Association called "Today's Middle Level Educator." This feed provides a series of podcasts by NMSA from experts in the field talking about ways to improve and assist middle schoolers and teachers. Because I am a middle school teacher I need all the help I can get (and those of you who deal with middle school students will know exactly what I mean).

3. MY third RSS feed is through the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) which provides information to language arts and English teachers. It is also an organization that I am a member of and find lots of new and innovative ideas as well as methods that apply to my state standards.

4. I actually got this next feed from Andrea Nichols blog post because it was such a great feed. Richard Byrne's Free Technology for Teachers blog provides what teachers desire most ... free stuff. Since I am technology hound and always searching for new ways to inspire my students, this is a great resource.

5. My last feed that I will list for this blog post is Full Sail's EMDTMS blog site. I have found that the knowledge of professors and former students who post to this blog site as beneficial in helping me find new sites to investigate and sometimes even some insight into the degree program itself.