I found that I did not have to create the RSS Feed as I had set up my blog using a google account, so when I followed people's blogs it had automatically saved these into my Google Reader. I now need to get into the habit of logging into my google account frequently to see the update blogs.
I had heard of RSS but I had no idea what it was or did, reading the information I compared it to the homepage of Facebook (I think it is quite a good comparison) As on the Facebook homepage of recent news it show updates of people's pictures, comments, statuses etc. So when I log into my google account it now shows me all of the new posts to the blog. It's great. Like shown on the video RSS in Plain English it saves so much time, so rather than clicking through all my favourite sites, I can now save these in my google account and watch the updates. Simple!
I have just discovered that withing Blogger, you just have to click on Dashboard in the top right corner and this will show updates of the blogs you are following!
This would be a useful tool to use for older students as when they begin a project for example, they can save their favourite sites and easily access them when they are updated. It would save a huge amount of time.
WIKI's seem pretty good but I fear that people would just randomly come along and change things. But when creating my WIKI I now know that you have to accept people as authors to the WIKI, which makes is secure.
I created my WIKI, but I am still a bit unsure of the concept. http://ourreef.wikispaces.com/ I thought of it as an online meeting space for students. I would set them a project and the group would allocate certain tasks/jobs to each member. From that each member would post their information onto the WIKI. In my case the students would be studying the Great Barrier Reef and can create different pages on the facts, species, how to save it and so on! I will be teaching younger children and I do not think they would be able to use a WIKI efficiently on their own, it would have to be a class project and students would have to take it in turns to write on the WIKI with supervision. I thought you could use it similar to a blog and create diaries of their term so that parents and carers can see their work. Although this may breach some schools privacy policies. You just have to adapt carefully to the schools policies.
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Hi Laura,
ReplyDeleteI think I'm in the same category as you with wiki's being unsure with the concept. I have a preference with using blogs, as they seem simpler to use. I can see how it would be a great idea to use wiki with a whole class, on the one subject. Having turns one at a time with supervision. As with RSS, I believe as a new user to computers, it's a great tool to keep websites that you use altogether.
Thanks for listening
Tanya :)
Hey,
ReplyDeleteNow I want to know why I have to wait for your permission for my comments to be visable?? Educate me PLEASE :)
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ReplyDeleteI have activated a setting on my blog which means that I have to moderate, read a comment before it gets posted to my blog. So for example if some stranger put a really mean comment about how bad I was or commented on a photograph then I obviously wouldn't allow that to go onto my blog. It is just another way to control your blog I guess, just makes me feel safer. It will be in the settings!
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