I feel a bit overwhelmed after reading Will Richardson's Chapter 6 in Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. I found his review of Twitter, Diigo, and Delicious to be very interesting and informative, but can't help but feel the one can spread themselves too thin in the use of so many Web2.0 tools. For myself personally, I like having a blog that is connected to a few select RSS feeds that I can read right from my blog's homepage. I bookmark my favorite websites on the bookmark bar of my web browser, and others in their respective folders within "My Favorites". I use Facebook and Instagram to remain connected to friends and family, but have not created a Twitter account to follow other educators or connect with the parents of my students. I have 4 e-mail accounts to keep track of for work, college, junk mail and bills, and a personal account for a select few people in my life. That is really about all I can manage. I find that sites like Feedly and Delicious are easy to use and wonderful in concept, but yet have no time to really use them effectively. I guess we each have to decide which web2.0 tools works for us individually, and not get overwhelmed by all the choices.
Richardson, Will. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Corwin, 2010.
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