Journal # 7

Bigenho, C. (3/2009). Mining for Gold. Learning and Leading With Technology, Retrieved March 21, 2009, from http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/LL/Current_Issue/L_L_March_April.htm

The beauty of RSS is that an internet user is able to receive all the information they want from the internet without having to look for it, or go to it. A user is able to go to a single page and it will have all the information they want/need. It is like having a morning paper that is formulated to you. This is a great resource for the classroom because as a teacher you are able to subscribe to student blogs and social bookmarks because all activity comes to you.

1. Why get a RSS feed instead of just checking the blogs on a daily?
As a teacher you have at minimum 30 students, checking each of their blogs everyday would be a huge pain. The cool thing about the RSS feed is that you can go to one page and all the blogs will be there. Any activity will be shown and you can just go to one page instead of all their pages.

2. How can this be used in the classroom?
There are many different ways! A teacher could set up a page that is formulated to the classroom. Instead of a page dedicated to you, it is dedicated to the classroom. In my case I would set up a page with feeds to many different pages dedicated to the learning of the spanish language.