Many a time looking from site to site I would see a little orange square sometimes with an RSS next to it. Never thought much about it until now. (Really enjoy learning the new and useful things in my class). RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Really simple is right. I didn't like having to go to each website everytime to see if there was something new. Especially when I need current events to go over in class. Now I can just search in place. Best thing of it all, it comes to me instead.
Did have to control myself and really think about which RSS I wanted to add to my reader. I have been checking now a little more often Edutopia and SMART EDCompass beacuse i don't have go through the website. Instead I read the sinpits of the articles and pick the one that takes me right to it. One of the new sites that are in my reader is TechLearning and Free Technology for Teachers.
Still need to learn how to manage the reader. Weeding out those feeds that don't make sense in really having will take time. Looking forward to using that little orange square.
Thank you so much for sharing the website on edcompass. That is an awesome smart board website to use and not have to create things from scratch. Another i have found useful is pppst.com. It is a collection of different power points that work in smart board on different topics. I have to agree it is great that the information comes to us know and i don't have to waste time looking out on the web for it. Try to create different folders to help you organize your different feeds you have now. Awesome post thank you.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean! At the beginning, I think I got WAY too much, and ended up canceling a few of my subscriptions that I don't really need because I don't think I'll have enough time to read it all! I also signed up for Free Technology for Teachers, and so far I have found lots of great stuff. I even found a site www.googleartproject.com for the art teacher at my school!
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