This week I've learned how what "feeds" are and how to subscribe to RSS feeds.
I really like the iGoogle home page, not just because of the feeds, but because it has my e-mail, Facebook, twitter, the weather- all in one location. I think I'll enjoy that at home. I want to add my work e-mail to that page if I can. At school, I would definitely need a feeder so I will be alerted whenever someone makes a post to the blog. That will help a lot, because it's easy to get busy & not check the blog.
I think it makes blogging manageable because it saves time.
I want to remember how to unsubscribe to feeds. It would be easy to have too many.
As I mentioned above, a feeder would let you know whenever there is a post to your blog. That is critical at school.
Yes, I definitely want to use the blogger in my classroom and educational role. As an interventionist, I work with all the teachers in the school. I'm also the DRA/TPRI rep. I could easily have a DRA/TPRI blog and a blog for RtI and SSTs. I could provide information when it's needed and teachers could subscribe to my blog to get updates when they occur. In some cases that might be more effective than e-mails.
On some of the blogs I looked at, I couldn't find a place to post a comment, so I'm wondering if some blogs don't allow outside posts? Also, it was really easy to subscribe to some feeds, but not to others. The tutorials helped with that.
One question I have- I feel really dumb asking this, but..... I'm wondering- What exactly is the difference between a blog and a website? I know that to have a website, you have to have a "domain name." So I've just created a wiki, and a blog & I see how they differ from each other, but when I visit a blog, it looks just like a website.
Linda,
ReplyDeleteCongrats! You have successfully completed the Basic Blogging Course!!! iGoogle is my Reader of choice as well. You can create different tabs which are pages to organize your feeds. Even if you don’t have your kids use an RSS Reader, you as a teacher can. I have a school tab on mine and link to different blogs and pages relative to my job. I also have a “fun” tab and that’s where I link to non school related links.
To answer your question (which is not at all stupid) the difference between blogging and websites is basically the ability to interact via comments. Some websites can allow you to subscribe to RSS Feeds, so they might be confused for a blog. Blogs are more of an “online diary” where multiple posts can be on a page and allow for comments on each post. Websites can have a specific domain and have landing pages and are more common in businesses. Both blogs and webpages can work together, for example TeacherWeb is a website, however you can add a blog page within TeacherWeb. Hope that clears it up.
Enjoy the rest of your summer.
Angie