While I'm working on catching up in CEP 810 I continue to work on the RSS lab. Session 1 has quite a few pieces and parts and I'm trying to make sure I get them all. I'm new to RSS feed and creating the page on netvibes was quite an adventure, but it really was easier than I thought. I've enjoyed going to the page once a day to see what all has changed in the world and found that having these RSS feeds all together within my netvibes page is not only convenient but it helps me make connections in the news that I'm reading. For example, on tree hugger there is an article on their new plastic bag ban. I posted a comment to that blog stating that I support the plastic bag ban and would love to see something like that happen in Michigan. That belief ties in with a lesson that I've done on recycling and using that information will make that lesson plan more robust, it is an example to show my student that other cities are banning plastic bags and ask for their ideas on recycling and if we could enact such a ban in our city. One frustrations I've had with some of the RSS feeds I've added is information isn't updated as regularly as I'd like. Treehugger updates daily and Cool Green Science updates about every other day or so, but the educational sites I've added don't update content regularly at all, like Edutech and weblogg-ed haven't posted in a month. In an age when I've gotten used to having new information instantly, content that's a month old seems ancient. RSS feeds can become almost addictive because they are constantly new things to read.
Here is a link to the screenshot of my RSS feed page.
http://screencast.com/t/3i4BwKi9e
I wasn't able to get everything in the screenshot because it goes over one screen and Jing doesn't have that capability. To see the full RSS feed go to my Netvibes page at http://www.netvibes.com/zienjenn
Thanks and stay cool.
- Jennifer
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