First of all....I cannot BELIEVE that I hadn't set one of these up yet! I read about a billion blogs a day and probably waste half of my life clicking on them to see if they're updated. I've heard the term "RSS Feed" many time but just never really investigated it. I decided to set mine up through MyYahoo because I check my Yahoo mail constantly and so it was the most convenient choice for me. I couldn't believe how easy it was to set up. I subscribed to a good smattering of my favorite blogs, educational and otherwise. I added coolcatteacher which is simply awesome, dangerously irrelevant, dlisted.com (my favorite guilty pleasure), bestweekever.tv, pioneer woman (thanks for getting me hooked Dr. Wall. Not. Now I'm obsessed with cooking all kinds of delicious cowboy food), and an awesome baking blog called cookiemadness.net. I am not exaggerating when I say that this whole RSS feed thing is going to change my life. Now when I log in to check my email I can just click on MyYahoo and see what's updated and what's not! I can't even get over how happy I am that there are smarter people out there in the internetz thinking of these things. I'm sure I'm probably the last one to the party where RSS feeds are concerned but I'm excited anyway!
As far as teaching applications, I think that it is imperative for teachers to find as many ways to save time as possible. By being able to scan blog headlines and only clicking on the entries I want to read, I'll be able to save countless minutes. When it comes to education blogs, current events/news blogs, etc. I think it will be amazing to just be able to log in in the morning before heading to work and just scan what's going on in the world so that the information and discussion questions I bring to my students will be totally up-to-date without having to spend precious morning minutes scouring the internet. Since I really want to create a blog for my class once I begin teaching this will be a perfect way for students to make sure they're aware if I update the blog with new instructions or information. They can subscribe to the blog and always know what's going on. My mind is totally blown by something so simple and awesome. This is probably how people felt when they discovered someone had started slicing the bread before putting it in the bag at the store.
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