Really Super Subscriptions

RSS feeds make keeping up to date simple and easy. Instead of using Bloglines for this, I chose to use Google Reader since I already have a Google account that I check often.

Once a week, blogger posts "Blogs of Note," and when I find one I like, I can easily subscribe to it using the RSS feed and Google Reader. Before I tried to keep a list, or add them to my favorites, but I would of course forget about them. Now when I log into my Google account, I can check the RSS feeds with no problem.

In my freshmen English class, students are often talking about books, and there are several blogs that update about specific books and authors. We could easily use the feeds to stay up-to-date on those sites. If I were to make an assignment to create a blog, I could subscribe to each blog and to its subsequent comments to keep tabs on the class. This kind of assignment would meet NETS-S 2--a and b.