Another One Down...

I don't have too much to share after our final class, but am happy with the amount of new things that I was able to take away and apply to my classroom.  So far, this course was the most worthwhile and gave me things to use.  However, I did feel like it had quite a bit of redundant and busy work.

My class is currently in the third day of going through the webquest activity that I put together for our final project.  It is going really well so far and I love using this activity to help put more accountability and power into the hands of my students.

I felt a bit overwhelmed with this class and the work, but I think that has more to do with the coincidence that I was having my students work on digital stories and that required a lot of my attention and time outside of school, as well as some of the other school expectations that happened to come during this class block.

Filling Up on RSS Feeds

I wasn't a stranger to seeing the little orange icon located on many of the blogs and websites that I visit, but also, didn't pay much attention to looking into what it really meant.  There are so many technology tools that were created to make it easier, quicker and more efficient to use technology, with only slight tweaks and differences with how they work.  RSS feeds fall into that category for me.  A few courses ago, we set up some sort of filtering system that would inform us whenever a topic was written about on the web.  We also have set up social bookmarking which accomplishes a similar purpose of narrowing down and simplifying.  The RSS feed tool is one that I actually feel like I could use because I don't think that I would follow a site that I didn't want to stay updated on.  At this point (which could be basically due to feeling way overwhelmed with the exposure to so many new things out there), I don't keep up with using them after the course expectations expire.  This one I find to be potentially different. It is also funny because most of the feeds that I have subscribed to are due to finds from Tweeting, which I NEVER thought I would do!