What changed in my thinking about technology after reading this chapter is basically learning what and RSS feed was. I noticed it on a lot of web pages that I would frequent for example CNN and I really never knew what it was until now. I can see how this could be a useful tool, not just as an educator but as a time saver in general for yourself. It seems kind of cool what it does bringing the information to you as it is new. I can see how this could really be helpful if you were manages blogs or wikis for a class, I was kind of wondering how to manage student blogs before reading about RSS feeds. I was kind of concerned about how you would know when students would post or if and when they posted information. Actually that was one of the reasons I thought that using blogs and wikis for classes could be very time consuming for a teacher, but with using RSS I can see that it would not be as much of a burden on your time.
I think that in my own classroom in the future I may use RSS. I definitely want to try using it first for awhile before I make my decision on whether I like the tool or not. I think the best way to try it out is just using RSS mainly for personal use keeping track of the few websites that I frequent most days and see how it affects my time management on the web, for example with weather, CNN, and a few other online publications I read like the Onion. I could see myself using the RSS for keeping track of student blogs and a class wiki. Some of the other uses I am not so sure on, but in addition to keeping track of student weblogs. I think that having them set up a RSS to keep track on a certain event or subject could be a neat semester long project for them to work on. I could see how it could be incorporated into a current science events section at the beginning of every class for example.
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