Thing #10

       So this "Thing" wanted me to make an account with Google Reader and subscribe to 5 different feeds. However, when I went to create my Google Reader account, it notified me that the site was being retired on July 1st of this year. So since that is only half a month away, I decided to not register with Google Reader. Instead I did a little research as to why Google was discontinuing this service that seems to be very popular and used by many. Here's what I found: Google Reader Shutdown
       This article explains that Google has decided to retire the service because we as consumers have changed the way we read and recieve our news. Instead of sitting down at our computers everyday to read our subscriptions, we reliy more on Twitter and other smartphone apps to get bits and pieces of our news. With this in mind, the author of this article believes that, Google might be changing the way their Reader works and might make it smartphone friendly or more accessable for their users. I hope this is the case because I'm very interested in using this service and subscribing to articles and using this service to my advantage as a teacher.
       I could use this service as an educator to stay up-to-date on new technologies available for teachers with pages like Free Tech 4 Teachers and can also subscribe to pages that are relevant to subject material and even current news and issues that I could discuss with my classes. I know that I didn't complete the assignment as designed, but I hope this eefort is enough to get credit for this part of the assignment!