CH. 3
This chapter was a more in depth look at blogs and how to use them. Some useful advice I gleaned from the chapter include that you should keep a blog if you want your kids to. (I try to ascribe to this in general with my teaching: I don't want to make my kids do something if I don't feel it's valuable enough for me to take the time to do it.) Also, there was some handy issue about how blogs should look, blog safety, tips on grading (grade the exemplar, not every single one), where to get free internet blogs, and more useful information.
CH. 4
I got scared at first because I didn't know what RSS stood for, but now I'm more excited about this concept.
I have a couple of stupid questions:
Do Facebook and Livejournal and other likewise programs have built in RSS feeds that allow you to see what your friends have updated etc? Is that considered an RSS?
Also, I loved the recommendation to use RSS feeds for search terms. I thought that could be a really cool way to go about getting information. I think I may recommend doing this to some other content areas for Transactive Papers. I think this has potential to be a fun way for kids to get relevant and timely material on a given topic.
**Also, I have a random connection to a book I read. There is this really cool little young adult novel called Feed. In this novel something like an RSS actually comes into your brain via a microchip. **
CH. 7
One of the reasons this book is so good (Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms), is that it not only introduces you to the technology that is out there, but it gives practical implications for classroom use. I liked the examples in here about how a Math teacher uses images to teach his class from Flickr like the die when talking about probability.
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I don't know about Facebook, but in LJ you can subscribe to feeds of websites and have them show up on your friends list (I have a few that you can see listed on my profile page). You can subscribe to feeds that have already been created, but if the one you want hasn't been, you can create one pretty easily. Take a look at the faq page (they have an explanation of how to find and create feeds there).
I agree that the book is a great resource for that reason also. It leaves the possibilities very open also. Not limiting what you can do.
I think a book like this for kids would be a great foundation for a student tech group.
Thanks for the kind words about my book. Glad you are enjoying it!
Best,
Will Richardson
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