Thing 10

Thing 10 introduced me to a very useful option to keep up to date with new postings on blogs and newsfeeds without having to visit each individual site.  This is a feature that I never realized existed!  While reading through the directions on Thing 10, I was initially a little intimidated since I felt like I was reading German (which I can't read).  However, after watching the video on RSS, I feel like I have a good grasp of what it has to offer in a very simple format!  I especially liked the reference that RSS is like subscribing to Netflicks instead of going to the video store :)

Now that I know how to subscribe and keep up with various blogs, I feel like the whole blogging world feels a little less intimidating!  As a future teacher, I feel like this new knowledge will be very useful in my professional development.  RSS isn't changing the information that is available, but it does change how we are able to use that information.  If I want to subscribe to a few educational blogs (which I did), I no longer need to remember to visit each blog to check for updates, but instead I can allow the updates to come to me in one centralized location.  As a future teacher, this will be particularly helpful in keeping up to date on what techniques other teachers are using in the classroom, new technology available that is useful to educators, or any other new tidbits that the bloggers are discussing.  Overall, I feel like this is a very useful feature that I am happy to have found!