I do like the whole idea of RSS Feeds and being able to have the news/information come to me without having to look for it. This becomes particularly important during the Red Sox Hot Stove Season and as trade deadlines approach in July. Yes ... I have the Red Sox feed. Can you blame me? I also stole the idea many of you had and subscribed to all your blogs. C'mon, admit it. We all search through the blogs to be sure we are doing the exercises correctly and to get ideas. Now, the new entries will come right to me! And that's when I realized how these RSS feeds can be used in my Literacy Cooperative classrooms. Each student keeps a reader response journal. How neat would it be for each student to set up a blog as their journal - and for the teacher to subscribe to all of them so that she is able to read and respond to each student when an entry is made. This technology is perfect for that set-up. I also subscribed to the K-4 reviews at School Library Journal - I'm hoping that the electronic version is going to be out a lot faster than the print one!
I do have to say that I had a miserable time with Bloglines. For some reason I never got my confirmation e-mail, despite repeatedly clicking the button to "resend verification." After five days, I gave up and went to Google Reader. With my frustration level at an all-time high, I was less than excited to look for feeds, but figure that the blood pressure will come down in the very near future.
By the way - thanks to one of you wonderful classmates for finding the gray hair for an avatar. Now that I know it exists, I may go back and revamp my sassy (but far too young looking) "self."
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