RSS

RSS

Setting up the RSS readers in both the browser-based aggregator and the web-based aggregator took me some time. I am not savy at this stuff and it ended up more frustrating to me than anything else. I am not sure how many google videos I searched and watched or how many just plain google searches I did before I kind of got the meaning of what I was supposed to do. I guess the good part was that when I finally did figure it out I felt like I had learned something. I chose Bloglines and used Firefox as my two.
I had seen the RSS symbol many times and wondered what to do with it. Never did anything with it because I just really didn’t care that much. But…………… now that I know what it does I think it is kind of cool. Using Firefox was very simple to set up and use and ran into no problems, once I figured out how to do it, which took me way longer than it should have. Bloglines was also very simple to use. I really don’t have a preference at this point in the game.
I think these could be beneficial for students. If you actually set up a blog for your class or classes what a great way to keep everyone current in a few simple steps. I think I would like to demonstrate each type of reader and let the kids decide what they like best.
Using RSS could help teachers always be in communication with students even if they were absent or school was not in session.

First Blogging Experience


I did it. This is not my thing, jabbering on about anything just to jabber on. So I will answer the questions and call it good.

Creating my own personal blog site was pretty easy. There were no “here are the instructions follow them step by step.” instructions. It was just the basic information that you see all the time, name, email address, title, etc. when you click on the set up site button. It was pretty self explanatory as far as I could tell and very easy. On one site, 21publish, I had to give personal information which I wasn’t as comfortable with as say the edublog site or blogger.com site where I didn’t.

Something that I found out about when setting up the blog was that I can control who sees my blog on each site, however, I did have to do some searching to find where it was that I could control who sees it. This is called exploring the site and learning. I figured it must be there because I figured there are times when you don’t want everyone seeing what it is that you are writing. I also like the fact that I can control the comments too. Edublog was the easiest as it was right on the set up page. The others I had to dig for.

If I was going to have a class set up a blog site I think I would pick at this point 21publish. It was the easiest for me to get around in after I logged out and then back in.
I chose this site because it was the easiest for me to get back to and do what I wanted to do. As a newbie this site caused me the least amount of frustration. If I was a student in my class I know I would have been questioning the teacher bunches on why the others wouldn’t work so easily when I went back to them to do the work. I found it very frustrating trying to get back to edublog and blogger.com and do stuff. 21publish was very simple.

As for information I would give my students about setting up the blog, it would be the same instructions that I give every time I am doing something on the computer with them. Read and Follow the directions to a T. It usually works just like they say when you do what they say. Be patient too. You are as smart as the computer.

I thought setting up the blog was pretty easy. Just using it is causing me heart palpitations though. I am jut not a talker and don’t have a lot to say. Writing about things is sometimes difficult. Even answering these questions took awhile because I just wanted to answer them with nothing else to add.