I’m new to the blogosphere as of about October of this year. I have found a wealth of information out there and have just recently started to use Google Reader to organize it all. I had been just adding blogs to my Google Personalized Homepage, but I found that to be not nearly as efficient. With Google Reader I can star items I want to be able to reference later rather than having to bookmark pages in my browser.
My biggest problem right now is – how do I catch up? How do I weed through all the archives of these great articles and posts about trends in Educational Technology? Where (or) do I stop? Where is the most important place for me to spend my precious time?
My personality is such that I don’t want to leave anything unread, but I know everyone will deal with this differently. I have found that I can’t start with the oldest and work my way to today. I’m simply too eager to see what is out there that is current – I have to see today’s news, well, today. But I also don’t want to miss out on what was happening while I was outside the blogosphere, even though much of it is obsolete now. The points of view of the blogs I’m reading may still have impact on me, even for posts written over a year ago.
I can’t imagine I’m alone in this dilemma as teachers begin their journey to School 2.0 via Web 2.0. Any advice for us novices?