I picked the iGoogle reader format for RSS feeds. I selected a number of subscriptions and blogs to follow. Most of these, for now, were personal and news feeds. But, I think that I could organize my feeds and folders to include a number of educational blogs. I've had this Google Reader account for a while. The biggest problem I've encountered is the same one that I encounter with a lot of other things in my life: not enough time! However, I do think there are some very nice ways that these could be incorporated as a resource for my teaching and my students' learning. One very interesting and ongoing assignment that I could set up would be a "Biology in the News" assignment (or "Anatomy & Physiology in the News") where students would have to read and summarize one news article/journal article. I've done something like this in the past with the Environmental Science course I taught for several years. However, it wasn't a huge success. But, I think that if I had kids set up a Google Reader account (since they already have Google Docs, it would logistically be the easiest one to use), I could have then subscribe to several news feeds related to the class they were in and subtopics that they were most interested in. Then not only are students keeping up to date with news and discoveries in that area, but I also benefit by reading their summaries and really learning something new while I did that (rather than read 30-90 reports about the same thing).
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