Wednesday, September 15, 2010

New Technologies


In the first week I learned how to use RSS.  I never thought about creating a page where I could organize all of my favorite websites.  My tool bar on my laptop has gotten so messy from all of the different websites I visit on a daily basis.  I learned that with Google Reader I could add all of my favorite websites to one page and I would also get updates on the different sites.  This is extremely useful and helps me stay more organized.  I like that I now only have to log on to one site to view all of my favorite spots to look at on the Internet.  This is a useful tool to use as a teacher because I can keep all of websites I search in one place.  I enjoy the updates on each of the website as well.  It is extremely easy to use because with many of the websites I have tagged, I don’t even have to go to the website to see the most recent posts.  They are all automatically updated to my computer.  The only weakness I have notice in the past week while using Google Reader is that the updates per website can get overwhelming.  At times I will have updates in the 90s on all of the most recent posts.  This isn’t something I would have my class use because it wouldn’t be appropriate for the elementary level; it is something I would recommend to the older grades.  I would however, share this with other teachers to help keep all of their searchable sites in one spot.

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