Week 3- RSS

I feel like I've been introduced into a whole new world! Being able to go to one place to find all of my information- AMAZING! I really wish you could hear how excited I am about this. Like I said in my post about social bookmarking I'm not much of a surfer, and I tend to forget about continuing to check the websites. However these RSS feeds make it incredibly easy to check in on many different websites.

Right now I'm using which allows me to do so much. There's ways to customize the backgrounds, choose which feeds you want to allow and which not, and there's ways to organze groups. I really like that all of my updates are right there for me. When I went to the Conference one of the big themes of a session was how much students want to be able to customize their work and space. Only then did it strike me about how true that is. Students want to be able to customize their desktops, lockers, and binders. When I started thinking about and how much it allows you to do, I realized how perfectly they played into that need of customization.

When I think about the applications for RSS feeds, I can't wait to get back to school. As I've said before, our school uses and within the program is an RSS reader. My plan for this year is to have the students follow eachother's blogs. This will allow them to become accustom with the program as well as enforce their reading, writing, and conversation skills. I really can't believe how different school is now compared to when I was in school...and it wasn't that long ago I was in school (comparatively).