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Want to learn more? Of course you do!

From the easy stuff to the harder stuff ...

Start by reading blogs ... you can learn a lot just by lurking around the blogosphere. The best way to find a blog you like is to use people as your "search engines". If you find a blogger you like, they'll lead you to other blogs. It's almost like making friends. One friend leads to another. If you find one you like, please add it to the list and tell us a bit about it.

Dave Barry's blog - the columnist

Make blog - lots of crazy things you can make

Lifehack - tips to help you be more productive

Boing boing - a directory of wonderful things

Post Secret - people post secrets (a Corrections student at the Truro campus got inspiration for a project from this site)

Weblogs@HollandCollege - every student at Holland College can create their own blog hosted by U. PEI ... all the blog postings appear on the Campus Commons so it's like one big student newspaper that all the students build together (this is one of Carolyn's favourites)

Weblogg-Ed - Will Richardson writes a lot about how to use blogs, wikis and podcasts to learn

Next, try bookmarking & tagging your favourites so that you can keep track of the ones you like and share them with others

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

del.licio.us

Next, let's get more active. Try commenting. Here are a few blogs to visit. Read something that makes you go "hmmm"? Then leave a comment. (Click "comments" at the bottom of the post.)

Ok, now we need an fast, easy way to keep track of all this stuff. Let's try an aggregator. You use an aggregator to subscribe to the blogs you like. Then, instead of you visiting blogs, blogs come to you.

RSS in Plain English

The aggregator Lee mentions in the video is Google Reader.

Carolyn uses Netvibes

Pageflakes (Tourism Hospitality NetworkED)

Ready to try blogging yourself? Fantastic! Here are a few free sites where you can start your own blog. I use both & they're both great.

Blogger

Wordpress

Chris Campbell uses Vox