Mr. Higgins’ Blog

This blog entry is for TEC-950: Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom

Summarize your experience exploring RSS and setting up your feed reader on your Web 2.0 Technology Blog.

I really enjoy using RSS Feeds to break up content and gain content from other sources.  I am just as interested in RSS Feeds as email; therefore, I am constantly checking my Google Reader to see if anything new has been posted.  I am not the best at posting continually with the business; however, it is a great way to interact with others.

Publish your thoughts on using Bloglines or one of the other feed readers in the classroom.

In my web development class, I showed them how I graded their blog entries.  All I did was keep an RSS feed of all content posted.  Through my math classes, I will keep an RSS feed of other classes around the globe and the progress they are making in their math class.

Highlight at least one example of how you might use RSS in your classroom and how this lesson/activity will meet one or more of the NETS-S.

NETS are concerned with communication.  Is there are better why to show students how to find information and have the potential to add information quickly through blogging or commenting?  Think about what this process means the Presidential Election.