Thing #10

I am the most excited I have been yet after learning about RSS. I already follow several blogs, and I am always frustrated with having to check each one individually. Sometimes, I forget to check and will come back to notice there have been several new posts. The best part about this all is, since my personal blog is set up through my Gmail account, I already had Google Reader set up and I didn't even know it! I went to Google Reader, and it showed all of the blogs I have subscribed to. I just can not believe that this existed and I had no clue. I will really use this to my advantage and start subscribing to more sites, and checking the Reader will apart of my daily online repertoire. This is going to be a huge time saver.

After reading some of the information on RSS and education, I can see how using one could be useful in the classroom to monitor the online behavior of students. One of the examples from It Really Is Really Simple: RSS for Educators was to monitor when students make updates to a classroom wiki. It would also be good if the class was following different blogs or other sites for some sort of projects to keep tabs on any new updates.