Wednesday, March 10, 2010
#15 RSS
Could be just me but I found this task a bit complicated...it is Wednesday so maybe my brain is in mid week funk?! I found lots of sites to add to my list but had to put a stop to it...I can barely find time to keep up on local and national news here...why stress myself even more with trying to read news updates from Canada...good heavens. No more adding favourite sites - though I accidently found some very funny ads, comics, stats that just happened to pop up...not sure how I did that. I can indeed see how RSS is valuable for personal use. As for using it in the classroom? Perhaps, if you were looking at global news items. The recent Winter Olympics comes to mind. If you were doing a Maths activity - keeping data of the medal tally and wanted to graph it every day then the students could go the this RSS and get the information really quickly without scouring through all those other websites. Any other teaching ideas on how to use this? Or are you in mid week funk too?
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It is definitely useful personally, but I use it professionally as well. I use it to keep on top of library trends, and technology trends. So you may be able to source information about education but also about resources to help you in the classroom. BUT it can be difficult sorting the good from the bad so that is the challenge! AND skimming is an excellent skill to have, too!
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