RSS one more thing to do!

A couple of months ago, as part of a graduate course I am taking (T & L in the Networked Classroom), I ventured into the world of RSS. I'll admit at first I doubted I would find much use for this aspect of the technology. I am happy to report that I was absolutely wrong! Use of a RSS is absolutely one of the take aways from this course.

Learning in the moment! ...I know I have posted about RSS feeds already... so I spent five minutes looking for my prior posts to find it...no luck. Here is the learning...I SHOULD OF TAGGED MY ENTRY!

One of the first thing I noticed after I created my GOGGLE reader account was the RSS logo on websites ...it was everywhere. It reminded me of how when I meet a new student, all the sudden I see them everywhere, when I would of said I had never seen them before.

I have learned how to set up and how to make changes to my account. I have learned to read or skim based on both the content I find and the time I have. Word from my instructor, Jeff Utecht,
was to not get overwhelmed. It still is hard for me to mark all read...when I know have have not read...but I have done it.

My students are currently reading a novel as a way to show them one of they many possible connections they will find to keep the biology they have learned active in their future years. Setting up a blog as a way to reflect on their reading is one of the options I have for the kids. As a district, we are very much struggling with our network connectivity, I had hoped to have all kids blogging, but with limited conductivity and not every student connected at home this was not possible. Using a RSS feed to organize and connect with all my students will make connecting and monitoring student blogs more doable.