I can certainly see how using a RSS feeder can help collect information in an efficient manner.
At first I had a difficult time thinking of what exactly I would you such a sorting hat for. I started off my subscribing to Maine Today because I was in the mindset that an RSS was essentially to be used to gather news. I quickly found out that the scope of this feed was huge. My feeder was packed with updates with so many stories that I found it hard to look at them!I then narrowed(or thought I did!) my search and signed up for a Red Sox feed. Now that was more focused but still capturing stories that I had already read or had no interest in. I need to play around a bit more to see if I can limit the scope of the topic, say trades or injury report, from one site or multiple sites for that matter.
I did get the hang of the pretty simple organizational system of setting up folders. That was helpful! Very similar to the document storage used on PCs.
I am excited to become more familiar with the various application of these social / time saving tool. I really like the ability to create a public page for sharing feeds that may be of interests to others. I envision this as a means locate great sources that other teachers have found and are using. The recommended sites that come up when searching for feeds has already been very helpful.
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I love the Harry Potter reference, Jamie:-)
I like the recommended sites feature, too.
You are right about the need to limit your feeds to what information you really need. And isn't that limiting (choosing the perfect keywords, using Boolean oeprators, limiting to certain domains, etc.) analygous to what we try to teach our students to help them wrestle the information beast that is the internet into some semblance of submission?
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