Thing #10-Learn About RSS Feeds

I've never heard of RSS feeds; I might have seen the letters and didn't know what it was. Either way I'm not surprised. As I have said earlier, I'm not exactly savoy on this type of thing. That's one of the many benefits of this class. I am able to learn what is out there and what I can use either in my daily life or my professional one. After reading up on RSS and seeing that I can add it to Google Reader and have decided that it's a great tool to utilize. I like it because I am able to follow all the sites/blogs that I want to without having to look for them. In a world where we expect to get everything instantly, this is just another way to make that possible. Setting it all up was a little frustrating at first, but after a few minutes I was able to figure it out. It's another example of how we, particularly me, expect everything to happen quickly and easily. As silly as it sounds, I'm proud of myself for not giving up. I'm not the type of person to give up, but I do get irritated fast.

I did not know what Google Reader was and although I became a "follower" of other people's blogs from class I did not know that Google Reader was following them for me. So this makes my life (school wise for now) a lot easier or at least I'm not wasting time with the process of getting to other people's blogs.

I'll be able to take advantage of the information from a few of the blogs and sites I decided to follow:

• Cool Cat Teacher
• Do I Dare Disturb the Universe


• Dangerously Irrelevant


• Literacy is Priceless


• CNN.com (personal life)
  

I find all of these blogs particularly interesting, especially the one on Literacy because I am going to be a High School English teacher. All the research I am finding on effective instructional strategies is useful, but it would be great to follow a blog so that I can ask my colleagues questions. These blogs will also give me ideas that I might be able to implement either in the school or in my class which I believe will be extremely beneficial to all of my students in one way or another.

I did not create a public page because I am still apprehensive about posting things where other people can see them. I'm always worried that it may come back to haunt me, even if I did not mean it in a bad way. I think people like to manipulate things that are said and written and I'm not ready for that kind of possibility. I'm still too new to this whole experience to take a risk....maybe one day I'll do it.