Thing 10

RSS feeds are a great aggregator of information.  By having one location to browse news feeds of sites that I like to visit, it helps me to streamline my day. Often times I find that I will not make it to a site I like to look at because I simply do not have the time, and that puts me behind in reading the headlines that interest me.

As a teacher, being able to categorize the sites I go to for recent articles of discussion with my students is a great help.  I don't have to go to each site and look for a new posting.  I think a great way to take advantage of this, and this would take a huge buy-in from everyone involved, would be for each teacher to create a blog for their subject and post daily activities to it.  If each teacher did this, then both students and parents alike could follow those blogs through an RSS reader and stay up-to-date on what is happening.  (Pie-in-the-sky dreaming right there, or is it?)

I have tried to use RSS feeds before and found myself overwhelmed by the information, I think it is important to filter your subscriptions to what you will look at or to me the whole purpose of an RSS feed becomes a mute point.