Tool 2: Ventura

I spent many years of my youth in this fine city of Ventura as well as Oxnard.

I use Google Reader to follow writing and reading professionals in order to global interact with other teachers and writers.

Here are a few of my feeds that I am following.

http://www.floggingthequill.com/flogging_the_quill/ : One day, I hope to became a writer. This site gives advice to the road to publishing your piece and fine tweeting your craft.

http://greetings-from-nowhere.blogspot.com/ : Barbara O'Connor's blog. Barbara has written a few books I love such as "How to Steal A Dog." Blue Bonnet Award 08-09

http://laurasalas.livejournal.com/ EVERYONE! I mean EVERYONE should follow Laura! She is a writer of poetry for nonfiction, which is clever in itself. I love her "15 words or less" poetry on Thursdays on her blog. In fact, I do the same on my blog because of her. She is so friendly that she responds to your posts and poetry. She even commented on my classroom blog which thrilled my class to bits. They were so eager to write more poetry because of the comments from a real author. Laura is a star!

http://susanwrites.livejournal.com/ Susan is another writer of poetry who writes like she is just writing to you. Enjoy to see her personal writing craft evolve. Helps me to reflect on myself as a writer.

http://www.napkindad.com/ Napkin Dad is a clever blog about how he used to write quotes and drawings on his daughters' lunch napkins when they were in junior high and high school. He uses this idea to post about family, rising kids, and life in general.

http://m-stiefvater.livejournal.com/ Words on Words by Maggie Stiefvater is an author blog of Young Adult readers.

Here are just a few blogs and sites that I follow on my Google Reader. Google Reader allows me to quickly go through my blogs that I am following without having to open a million tabs. It saves me tons of time for updating my interests. Sharing openly as a professional in writing/reading keeps me sharp and connected to the latest practices and methods in that field.