Thing #10

RSS and newsreaders can provide you with up-to-date information on topics of your choosing. I can see this being a helpful feature for those that are truly interested in following a particular topic on a regular basis. I do not necessarily see how I will use this in my classroom, but I can see some useful purposes in my personal life. I'm not certain that I need to track these items on a daily basis to get the information that I need. Most of the items that I have subscribed to are simply for curiosity. The main item that I see being helpful for me is the TEA subscription. Even this though will not provide me with any information that I would not already receive in the form of an e-mail or get hard copy of.
If you teach a subject in which current events are part of the curriculum that is being covered, and if you have a requirement of your students to get information from certain sources, I can see this being a tool that may be of assistance to you for tracking the latest information. From what I understand from the teachers at my school who do have a current events requirement, they have a difficult time requiring that information come from certian sources, as not all students have equal access to all resources of information. Typically, the teacher provides the current event and the source from which the current event came. After the students read about the current event they have a classroom discussio nor other activitiy associated with the current event.