My favorite method for finding feeds was to use Technorati. It was a good website and only came up with blogs or blog posts when I typed what I was looking for in the search bar. It gives you a list of blogs with pictures. After you click on the picture it takes you to a different page with a brief description, tags, and recent posts. If you are still interested you can go to the actual blog site and take a look around.
The method I found most confusing was Google Blog Search. It was like a normal Google search, but not everything that came up after you typed a search word in was a blog. I typed in education and several of the results that came up were newspaper stories, ads, or links about blogs and not actual blogs.
I found several useful blog feeds while I was searching around the different sites. The first was Edutopia. I really like this one because it has a lot of useful information. Many of the really good ones that I found were off of Edublog Awards. I looked at many of the winners and runnerups, and most of them had very good information. An unusual one that I found off that list was Jaden's Awesome Blog. This is a blog that someone has helped a sixth grade boy write.
I did not actually find another search tool to look up new blogs or feeds, but I do like using Feedly. We signed up for Feedly in our last blog post and I really like using it to find new blogs and feeds.
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