For this exercise we were supposed to discover RSS websites. Little to my knowledge through google-I already was subscribed to google reader! I even had a page to follow since I had long ago subscribed to a friend's blog. I decided to use google reader because I like all the other programs google has to offer. It seemed self explanatory and was similar to the email.
Adding other links by RSS was a bit confusing at first, but once I discovered you could just click on the little RSS icon on the main page, you could find which link you wanted to add, for example a world news page. I am an avid news reader. With my husband being deployed frequently I always like to be up to date in the world news and happenings. Now that I have all the worlds news from CNN and Fox News showing up in one place, this will make reading it much easier! As I said above I also follow a friend's blog about her baby, this will also help me see if she has updated it, rather than having to go to that website daily to check!
As for the use of RSS in a school setting, I could see many applications to the science field. I already added a link to science news, which gives me the most up to date news in the research of all science fields. I am sure with a bit more in depth searching I could find a link for chemistry related research and add that. I think its important to show students up to date research in the field and how it relates to work in the "real world." This would help make them see that chemistry is just more than a required class to take in high school, which is one of my main goals in teaching-to build interest in hopes of helping them pursue science as a career!
As I discussed above, teachers could use this technology in order to help students see real world applications of the material being taught. I think if a teacher cares enough about the material they are teaching, supplementing with real world examples will only benefit the students more! It will help them see a real world application and hopefully peak more interest in the subject matter. This will just take time and effort on the teachers part!
RSS could be even be taught to students as a way to keep up to date with information that they are interested in, just like we are doing in this class! I think this would be a great resource for social studies teachers that are trying to get students to pay attention to what is going on in the world!
So this is a link to my public google reader page-so far I haven't shared alot of websites that I have found. However, as I become more familiar and take advantage of this, I will be adding things I find interesting! So I hope people come back to actually take a look at it.
My google reader page: Nicki's public google reader page!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Hello Nicki, i noticed you were way ahead of most so i was wondering if you would mind telling me how to add the link onto the page. when i do it the http www and all that shows up but i noticed yours is neat and just says the name of the website. it would be greatly appreciated.-Hannah
ReplyDeleteThere is a little pic of a paperclip thing when you are writing your blog. Right next to the text color box. Click on the paperclip and a message will pop up that you can put your link in. :)
ReplyDeleteI hope I wrote that clearly enough for you to understand. Let me know if you still need help! :)