810 RSS Lab:
This is a screen shot of my RSS feeds:
This is a screen shot of a response I made to a blog I am watching through my RSS feeds:
Part II:
Below is a screen dump of my RSS Reader page that shows new feeds added.
I read “Classroom Computers, Another Legacy Of Steve Jobs” by Larry Abramson from NPR. I was really disgusted by the negativity that people were commenting towards Steve Jobs and computers in the classroom. I posted the following comment in reply: “Wow. A lot of negative comments! Computers ARE useful in the classroom, just like they are useful in the corporate world. The trick is understanding how to utilize them for greater learning/productivity. It is easy to say that kids don’t know anything without looking it up, but in truth, look how much more information we have today than we had just 10 years ago. There is no way to remember everything without having to look up some of it.”
With all of the commitments we currently have, taking time to check the RSS feeds was still a hassle. I can see, however, the benefit of having articles relevant to what I would search for at my fingertips. I think a key to this also is finding feeds that do not overload me. For example, the NPR news took up most of the feeds and too many of them were not articles I would have taken time to read anyway. More manageable subscriptions such as SchoolVue would be what I would want to follow. There have been only three feeds in the past few months and I will eventually read all of them.
Like I mentioned above, finding relevant feeds is very important. All of the feeds from SchoolVue will be useful to me because I use this software and they give useful tips, tricks and updates. I will probably delete the NPR feed after this class project is done because I will probably not even filter through the many feeds I get from them.
Once again, I will probably delete some feeds that I don’t find useful and add more feeds to things that directly affect me such as SchoolVue. These feeds are limited in volume, but very useful and helpful. All in all, I think RSS feeds can be a very productive tool if used properly.
