Readers who follow me on Twitter may be aware that I’ve been tinkering with some different blog designs and plug-ins. You haven’t noticed them yet because I’ve been testing on a “dummy blog.” In the coming weeks you will see some changes like categorized resource lists and a slightly different color scheme.

Today, I installed the Outbrain ratings widget. It is basically a way for readers to rate each blog entry. The rating system is not why I installed it though. In the near future Outbrain is releasing a blog recommendation widget which will point you to related topics within Free Technology For Teachers and on other blogs. My hope is that adding this widget will bring exposure not only to content that I’ve previously written, but also to the content created by other bloggers on the same topics.