After learning about RSS Feeds and exploring several blogs, I think I am finally getting the hang of building an RSS feed. When trying to find RSS feeds, I searched Google, Technocrati, syndic8, Topix and a few other sites for blogs that I thought would interest or benefit me. Out of all of the search tools I used, I liked Technocrati the best. I felt that I found the most credible, informative blogs using this site. Also, as someone who is a professional educator, I liked Edublog because it takes some of the hassle out of searching for education blogs. I thought using a search engine like Google was the most troublesome because the search results are not specific. For example, when I searched for Education blogs, it ave me numerous articles about the top ten education blogs. Then, I want to read each of those articles and I don't know which one will truly give a list of best education blogs.
After subscribing to some of the RSS feeds, I found that some of the news feeds are not very useful to me. While I am concerned about current events in our world, I felt like NPR's RSS feed bombarded my reader with all sorts of news at all hours of the day. In this case, I thought that I would rather listen to their on-air programs. For this reason, I probably will not be using RSS feeds for news.
On the other hand, I do like the RSS feeds to keep up with blogs that I follow. In MyYahoo (which is the reader that I am using) I am now getting updates on the new posts by book bloggers that I like to read.
While I am using RSS feeds and MyYahoo reader for my own personal interests, I think teachers could use RSS feeds to follow education blogs to keep up with the newest technology or to follow blogs specific to their subject to help with lesson plans and other curriculum ideas.
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