tHING #10

After watching the youtube video, I was really excited about the possibilities of RSS (really simple syndication). However, after searching my most often visited sites, I was a little disappointed to learn that they did not have an RSS link. In a couple of other instances, there was an RSS link, but for some reason, it would not load onto my google reader. Lately, I don't do much surfing on the net. I get most of my news via satellite radio on my way to work. I am currently taking four graduate level courses and working 30 hours a week. Therefore, when I'm on the computer it's either to check my personal, work, and educational email, check online banking, d2l, and Facebook (my guilty pleasure). My 1st grade daughter's teacher uses shutterfly as an online forum to communicate with the parents. So I was VERY excited to see that it had an RSS link. However, it must have been a broken link, because every time I clicked on it, it would just freeze up. In addition, I was also disappointed because Facebook didn't offer any kind of RSS links. In summation, I may have been disappointed to how RSS feeds worked for me, but at least now I know what they are and how they work. Now, I will definitely be looking out for the little orange symbol for I feel teachers can really benefit from sharing information via this method!