Thing 15 - Staying Informed

I spent a lot of time playing with iGoogle and loved every minute of it. I changed my theme about a dozen times and I added more gadget than I would ever know what to do with.
 I decided to get back on task and focus on the assignment so I added the CNN feed, TechLearning feed where I have access to educational technology blogs and dictionary feed. This would be useful for teaching and learning because it is so simplistic to use and it allows students to have control over how they want their page setup. Students love to have control. I think it is a nice way to have things organized so tasks are more streamlined which makes students and teacher more effective. This would be really nice for a Current Events class where students need access to the news. They can quickly and easily view the feed and they can all have access to the same information at the same time without bothersome popups or ads promising a free laptop! As Ron Houtman states, that once you subscribe to these feeds, the news "automagically" comes to you in your RSS feeds rather than you wasting your time searching on the web. Awesome!