06.17.08
Thing 5 – That’s How I Roll
What has struck me about subscribing to various RSS feeds is that I have instant access to changing and updated information. How cool! A post on Vicki Davis’ Cool Cat Teacher Blog caught my eye simply because it illustrated the essence of the RSS tool:
If I had subscribed–or even known that I could subscribe–to Reuters I would have learned that Pluto was relegated from its position as the 9th planet in our solar system back in 2006. Poor Pluto. Fortunately, now that I have a Pageflakes account, the news that small sphere-shaped celestial bodies will now be called “plutoids” was delivered directly to me. At least Pluto got to keep part of its name!
News: interesting, relevant, random, and fun sent to me as often as it happens. RSS. That’s how I blog roll.
June 17, 2008 at 12:56 pm
RSS is great — I also twittered it as well. Sometimes twitter is where my news breaks. I’m trying to figure out the “Thing 5″ – and what it means – I’ve been seeing more posts with Thing and a number. Is there a reason. Tell me more.
June 17, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Hi Vicki, I haven’t figured out Twitter just yet. I’m still getting into personal blogging and wikis. The “Things” are part of an online course I am participating in with Shelley Paul this summer: K12 Learning 2.0. Each week we are given a new Web 2.0 tool to research and “play” with, and the “Things” that I’ve posted about represent the tasks I have completed around those tools. Thanks for asking, and can I say that it is an honor to have a Cool Cat Teacher posting on my blog?!
http://k12learning20.wikispaces.com/