Friday, July 10, 2009

Thing # 8

RSS and Readers

I confess I was one of those people who didn't have a clue what RSS was or what that little orange symbol meant. Now that my reader is set up I can see how helpful it will be. I like the way it lets you organize the blogs and information you want to receive all in one spot. I had bookmarked many of my friends blogs but now I can see them on the reader without having to go through all my bookmarked website. Cool! I also did a blog search and found a couple of running related blogs that were interesting. Hopefully it will help keep me motivated in the excercise department.

For those of us in the education field, I think RSS and readers are a great way to keep up with what is going on. It is easy to get wrapped up with what is going on on your particular campus, but with a reader we can stay connected and share ideas with other educators not just in our district but across the country

2 comments:

  1. bingo ...you just stated one of the main reasons for all of this...why limit ourselves from learning only from our campus colleagues or members of our district when we can learn from all over the place!

    It's our students who benefit in the end!

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  2. And it saves so much time! Instead of clicking on every bookmark every day, just one! And you can add it to your iGoogle page, too!

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