I learned that RSS feeds can be very helpful as they end up saving you a lot of time. Instead of going to numerous different sites to learn new information, I can just go to one site such as my blog and see on my blog the updated information on other sites that I would want to check. The new information is brought to me so I don't have to constantly be checking the sites to see if there is any updated information. I could see how this would be very helpful to teachers. They could have creative new lesson plans or history facts of the day sent directly to their blogs without them having to do the research to find this information.
Web 2.0 is also an interesting concept. I already used Web 2.0 without knowing. I see how it would be very helpful to your students to be able to interact with you in a very fast and efficient way over the internet such as through a blog. I remember having very limited communication with my teachers growing up and at times I wished I had more. I believe this is a great way to stay in contact with the kids and can also be very helpful to those digital learners in my future classroom.
haha! RSS and Web 2.0... I totally didn't know what they were talking about either! But I'm in the same boat as you, I feel like they will help me communicate with my students better! I could never get in contact with my teachers while growing up either, so I feel that it's a good way to let our students know that we want to help them!
ReplyDeleteI feel the very same! These are great resources to keep my students involved not only in my class, but with the world at large. Very neat ideas! Technology is really quite neat, and now that we're actually learning how to not only understand it but use it, it's great! I'm glad that I actually feel like I'm learning and not just drowning!
ReplyDeleteI think that all of this new technology that we have been learning is going to be so helpful for us as teachers. I was really nervous about this class before we got started, but now I realize that these web 2.0 tools and the RSS are things we can actually use in our own teaching.
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