My Thoughts on RSS

After reading this chapter it sounds like RSS could be a very useful tool for yourself and there are many ways you could use it to help yourself as a teacher.  RSS seems like a great organizational tool for you to use online.  The internet has so much information and there is not way that you are able to visit all of the sites that you want to every day and look for useful information.  RSS seems like a website that can help me organize many different sites with lots of information into one neat and organized place.  As a future educator I am going to want to be as organized as I can and I think this is a site that could help me organize things that I find on the web a lot easier.  It seems like this tool can be utilized the best by incorporating it with blogging.  It would allow me to find useful information that other people have published on the web in certain areas that I want to read and learn about myself.  Having this tool would allow me to save time so I don’t have to be constantly searching different sites and sorting through information that is most likely not important.  With RSS the information can come to me and I can sort through things that I have pin pointed myself and that will save me a lot of time. 

            As a future educator I can show students this type of tool which then can help them constantly find resources that they could use to learn about subject areas that I am teaching.  Also if I am blogging about information that I am teaching in my classroom it can go to their RSS feed and they can read information that I have posted.  Another useful way I could use RSS is if I have the students blogging themselves I can have their blogs go into my RSS feed so I don’t have to visit each one of their sites individually.  All of that information can come to me and that will allow me to save a lot of time and energy to do other things to help them.  I think that I will have to start using it and get familiar with it to truly understand how it can help me as a teacher.  I think that it can be a very useful resource for me personally but, I think that I will have to learn more about it to fully understand how I can use it as a main tool in the future as an educator.