My professional development and even my greater PLN rely heavily on the use of Flipboard, Zite, Bloglovin and Feedly.
My main go to app to for my RSS feeds is Feedly. I like the format of this app and how easy it is to use. I love the fact that I can find out the latest information without having to go to the 60+ different blogs that I follow. At times I feel a little overwhelmed with how many new posts I can read each day. Weeding some of those blogs from my feed could be a good idea.
When I created my first RSS feed, I used Google Reader and found that a great way to get all of the latest posts from the bloggers I was following. When that went away, I also had just purchased by first smartphone and found Feedler was a great app that worked as well if not even better than Google Reader. Feedler went through some changes last year and I was once again in search of the perfect app to be my one stop spot for the latest posts from my favorite blogs. Bloglovin was nice and I sometimes still use it because I can access the RSS feed on my computer as well as my devices.
Flipboard and Zite I also use, but not on a daily basis. I just found that Feedly had more of the functions I was looking for as a way to collect the information from all of those blogs. It still has a little bit of the magazine look that Flipboard tries to market. My professional development network has expanded beyond the walls of my school. Being the only media specialist in a building creates a challenge for me, but the use of the RSS feed makes it seems like these other tech integrations and media specialists are right down the fall from me to gain knowledge and ideas.
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