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What ways have you found expeditious to share links to what you’re reading and bookmarking these days?  I sure would like to hear from you!

Today I tried to create a link that I hoped would allow others to connect directly with my Google Reader “Starred List” of interesting articles on parenting, teaching and education issues, learning differences, all kinds of dance information, and articles that address technology issues, along with helpful tech tips and tutorials.  It worked but people could access more than I bargained for so I just deleted the link-sorry!

As you may discover if you read many of my blogposts, this isn’t a one-sded blog by any means-I’m interested in too many things to write just about one, though I seem to be most attracted to discussing and adding to people’s knowledge base on the topics of: education (including gifted education, learning differences, and dance education-of course-since I’m a dance teacher), good tech topics for non-techies to know about, cool web 2.0. tools for kids, teacher, and parents–among others topics of interest.

My thinking was if you’re interested in any of these topics, or you like the way I think and write, if you’re taking Shelley Paul’s k12learning2.0 course or another web 2.0 course,  or just want to learn more about web 2.0 without having to take a class, and you’re as pressed for time as I seem to be all week at school or work, then you might enjoy clicking on my list of starred articles  just to see what kinds of things are possible to read about thanks to the wonders of RSS, or if you already know about Readers, to find some accessibly written, interesting, short reading for carpool or bank lines, and/or learn about some “how-tos” for processesyou haven’t heard about or haven’t had time to look for a tutorials on.  But I guess that idea just bombed!!!

Browsing through my Google Reader is fast becoming one of my very favorite ways to spend a rainy, cold Sunday afternoon. I’m the Queen of Week-end Procrastinators, but I promise it’s not really a time-waster; I really learn a lot of useful things this way, and often find articles and links to share here, and to email to friends.  I think that’s why I was hoping to share here on this blog too.  I’m sure there are other ways to do that-this idea of mine was supposed to save me some time hough-back to the drawing board,

Google Reading is relaxing for a workaholic like me-what do you think?   I like it because I can read about the latest things that will help me as a parent, blogger, teacher, etc. without actually having to get up off the couch to go do any of it-unless I want to!!  So far it’s just something I indulge in on my own time at home-it hasn’t become a form of procrastination that I use at work, nor do I expect I’ll ever have time for it to become one either (my boss will surely be glad to know)!  Like most teachers, I’m afraid I can all too easily address my addiction to reading, and get my daily technology “fix” at the same time, just trying to keep up with school email! But if youhave a job where you sit at a desk and stare at a computer all day, I don’t have to tell you-you probably have your own reader that you’re wasting time with already.  You can’t add my “starred list” but you can access jan_o’s  Delicious Bookmarks! Many of the articles I find in my Reader end up in My delicious!

jan_o’s Delicious Bookmarks have finally been put into tag bundles-more or less.  Tons of great links here-in my humble opinion-lol!  IF you find something useful-please let me know!  Some of my more recent bookmarks are how-tos for  Twitter and Facebook, i.e. how to share your links on those two social networking platforms.

Personally, I’m trying to figure out how much I want to get involoved with Facebook (as a person who is already starved for time to update one blog and one wiki on a regular basis) so you probably can’t find me on Facebook very easily, if at all, and I’ve only just started to think seriously about Twitter,  as I have said before, it might be interesting to sign up just so I could learn to be pithy!  But thanks to my Google Reader and my Firefox app Zemanta (that automatically suggests related articles whenever I type an email or blogpost), I see it’s becoming possible to put tweets on my blog and my blogposts on Facebook etc. -so I may subcumb after all!  At least one of thosearticles is listed at the end of this blogpost, so check it out if you’re similarly curious.

You may notice some of my recent bookmarks on Delicious from Digitizor-I was disappointed to discover that when you click on those they just take you to a place where you have to add Digitizor to your reader to be able to see the article, but at least you can tell by the titles of the articles whether or not you want to add Digitizor to your Reader.  I think they’re definitely worth it-but you you’re like me and don’t “speak geek”, be aware that you’ll probably have to scroll through their extensive lists of articles to find the ones you can actually understand and use.

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