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This week I took a look at five Google Reader feeds. The first feed is related to the work I am doing in school at the present. We are researching the reasons why the Chesapeake Bay is being over populated by Sea Nettles. The problem with the Sea Nettles is that they are stinging the swimmers in the bay. It appears to be a seasonal problem and over abundance and stinging of humans has occurred during the past decade. It has something to do with the increased nutrients in the water. I choose the Chesapeake Bay feed to give me some recent data for my students to process and come up with some solutions for the existing problem. I also want to use it to plan for next year’s curriculum.

I am also following a feed on Ning. Dr. Deason first introduced me to Ning and I presently have quite a few videos uploaded to the site. I would like to keep up with the skills I learned about Ning and continue to build on the website my team developed during his class. We developed a site about using cell phones in the classroom. We put our site together pretty fast and would now like to take some time in developing the ideas we came up with for future references.

The next site I looked at was a blog about Web 2.0 products on the Internet. It provided me with a lot of new Web 2.0 products and how to use them. I think this is going to be helpful in this class since we have to critique the various products that are on the Internet and tell how we would use them in the classroom.

I found a site for Blip TV and added it because I place videos on it. I saw some information about viral videos and about online video professionals. I would like to get into that as part of my inventory or skills on my resume. I saw a lot of great ideas that I could use and build upon. There was even some information on YouTube video creation.

The fifth and last feed is about e-learning and software development. I saw something in this list that was about personal learning environments. I also saw lots of information concerning applying software development paradigms to open educational experiences. I think this feed will help me in developing my own personal learning cloud.