This chapter made me very excited for all the possibilities of using RSS feeds.
As a graduate student, the idea of having the latest research delievered to me on the paper I'm working on sounds amazing! Without taking much time out of my day, I could easily check to see if any late-break research has been released, instead of spending time every few days checking databases just in case something might have been published.
As a teacher, I am also energized to use RSS. I love the idea of having students create their own blogs and being able to quickly check them for content in one site. I think this would be a very beneficial tool to show many of my fellow faculty members who are hesitant to use blogging because they believe it would take too much of their time to offer.
One warning in this chapter that I can completely identify with is RSS overload. After our multimedia class each created blogs, I quickly began to follow each classmates' blog and quickly began to feel overwhelmed when I checked the feeds in my Google Reader. To try to cope with the overload, I decided to place the three blogs I am following this week in one folder. I'm hoping that will help me prioritze my feeds.
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Prioritizing and focus are very important 21st century skills. Let's talk about this in class, too. Also, did you try to set up a RSS feed for a search term? The example is in the book - we can look at it Monday.
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I know what you mean, Michelle. I'm kind of scared to set up my RSS feed because I'm just getting used to using the technology. I need a few more weeks before I have to start sorting through my feeds. However, I'm really excited to utilize blogging and RSS feeds for my own research and try it out with students.
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