Thing 6

RSS Feeds

My Net Vibes Page

Likes

I like the idea of RSS and newsreaders. Having all that specialized information at your finger tips in interesting. I could see it being useful for research or just getting a general idea about a topic. It might be interesting for lesson planning.

Work

For work, I could use this site to keep track of lesson plans or interesting ideas or new classrooms techniques. That could save time. My students are always looking for topics for papers and presentations, so keeping topical is a benefit.

Personally

For personal life, Net Vibes could cut down on my morning routine. Just open it up, get a quick blast of everything all at once, move on with my life. Though in actuality, it is probably just one more thing to obsess about and waste hours of my life browsing anything from new recipes to pictures of cats to music.

Libraries?

As I was looking at the tab feature, I was wishing that the library had an RSS feed to follow. But when I thought about it, the methods of looking up research material isn't really all that bad. There are a lot of tools out there (Diigo is one of my favorites in conjunction with the HBU library site). Might be neat to have a library do something like this but I feel like librarians would have their work cut out for them. Those would be a lot of RSS feeds. I think the technology is satisfactory at the moment so anything would need to be a vast improvement.