Saturday, June 30, 2007
Post #2
I think thus far I have been most intrigued with the RSS feed capability. I was shown this once at my school by the Tech trainer, but, sad to say, without a corresponding hand-out, someone like me became lost hardly out of the gate. I understand upon reading Richardson what a truly interesting tool this can be, what with being able to be so selective about discerning the inflow of information that you want to access. As a skill subset, I think Richardson is right when he says increasingly students will find themselves at a disadvantage if they are unable to spot relevant and interesting information. I do not know if I would be able to do what Richardson recommended regarding collecting student work in my aggregator using their RSS feeds. Regrettably I will probably only utilize the RSS feed in a basic way because, even now with this course, I am struggling to stay on top of everything. I am sure, though, that I could arrange a "feed" to (from?) the New York Times. I think I could do that and use it. I still can't get over that so much of all this calls for so much computer availability for our students. I also can't figure out if I need to go to "Bloglines" or simply learn how to use this with my blog already. So much information! It's good to know there are examples mentioned by Richardson. But for now I need to stay focused on the class assignments.
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I agree with you that the RSS idea sounds like a great feature for classroom teachers. I do want to explore this some more and see where it would be the most useful in class. I do believe it would be very helpful both to my students and to me at term paper time for gathering filtered reference materials.
I feel the same way you do, overwhelmed at times with the amount of "things" that can be done with/on the internet.
I also like that Richardson's book includes helpful start up tips and step by step instructions for how to use things like "bloglines". I know I will use his instructions to help set up mine and hopefully it will allow to cut my time down searching and looking for things and getting updates.
RSS is definitely cool, and it is great that Richardson provides websites and guidelines to help us use thses tools, but there is so much! I really am being humbled by this course and I think I am going to end up reading this Richardson book multiple times! If I can use even one of the wikis, blogs, webquests, websites, RSS feeds, and whatever else there is going to be in my classroom next year, I will feel accomplished! I am glad I'm not the only one felling this way!
You're already doing RSS...hopefully today's lesson on RSS didn't confuse you (it's difficult with different browsers, etc.) Let me know if you need to revisit the topic again. I'd be happy to show you!
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