I have been on the world wide web for more than 30 years. I publish websites, search for content and price out purchases. Yet in all these years, I have never subscribed to a RSS feed. How could I have missed such a time saving step? Ignorance I guess. In the last two days I have been researching RSS feeds as a means to stay up to date on particular subject matter. I choose to use Google's Reader as I am well entrenched in Google's clutches. As I added feed after feed of targeted educational blogs and news sites, I found that having the latest news and information about technology in education to be exceptionally valuable. Check out a screen shot of my Reader Page below...
My reader feeds are being funneled into iGoogle and are shared publicly. go to
http://www.google.com/ig#m_32
Addendum: I have been following my feeds for a couple of weeks now and find that the amount of great information coming from the sites I have subscribed to is a little overwhelming. Yet, I have found some great resources... one site I particulary love is the Free Technololgy for Teachers site. I have either bookmarked or subscribed to 6-7 different great tools such as DropBox. I commented on this blog post and described how this tool allows my wife and I to share our work from the home office computers to the school computer without having to upload or email them to ourselves. Just save into the DropBox folder and it is instantly available on all computers.
I can see myself setting up folders for the different types of content that I would want to pull from the web and setting up RSS feeds for each folder. When I am looking for educational materials or resources, I would open my Education folder... In addition, I can see myself starting a Blog specific to my classroom and using it as a way for parents to stay informed. I could make my Blog posts available via RSS and show parents how to subscribe to them to get up to date information and alerts.
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