Using my RSS Page

After Creating my RSS page and searching for feeds that I thought would be entertaining to follow, I found myself adding more pages that would be more appropriate for me to follow as an educator.  Two such sites that I have added to my RSS page are a feed to MACUL tips and tricks to using technology in the classroom and Everyone's Blog and Classroom 2.0 website.  Both of those site are constantly being updated on educational information and I have found myself on those feeds numerous times throughout the past few weeks.  One post that I added to MACUL was a trick about using Polleverywhere.com.  To screen shot is below.

Over the next couple of days I read posts about using powerschool (our school uses this), Using Pearson, (we just moved over to pearson inform)...globster, Meetmeatthecorner.org, and many other sites I see being useful in my science classroom.

Classroom 2.0 hasn't been updated as much as MACUL, but one article I found interesting was a post about "Why your Schools Social Media Strategy is Falling Behind".  It talked about how we as schools are far behind as a whole with regards to technology in the classroom.  People replied unanimously that they agreed. 

My feed linked to Smart technology updates has barely been updated and it seems as though it is not what I had hoped it would be (tips and tricks using Smart Technology).  It is more updated press releases and upgrades happening with the company.  I am still searching for a feed that will give me "free" training on Smart tech stuff!  My classroom is outfitted with Smart and I want to use it to its full potential.

The health blog that I have been following has provided me with interesting topics to start my health class on numerous occasions.  One in particular was a post about this lady who had an elective larynx transplant so she could speak again.  The down side; she has to be on immunosupresent drugs the rest of her life.  my reply is posted below 

Greg Laden's Blog on Science as a culture is an interesting blog to follow.  One post in particular I found interesting was his post on vaccinations vs disease, which is worse?, the post is below with my reply at the bottom.

He has some interesting perspectives on different topics and has many people that follow and comment.  The things in this blog are hit or miss whether I can use them is class or not.  if nothing else, it's is personally interesting to read.

I also have been following a healthy eating blog which has not played out to what I thought it might be, but has still been interesting to follow.  A few posts have been regarding Weight Watchers and how they say that diets don't work;  a change in your lifestyle is the only thing that will help you lose weight.  This site has also given some good/different recipes also which is going to help me next year because I will be teaching nutrition and foods.  For part of this class I will be teaching the students how to prepare healthy meals so even though I don't see the usefulness as of yet, it will come into use next year.

ScienceDaily has been a great resource for bellwork discussions in my science class.  It provides me with updated information relevant to the students lives.  Things such as New Stars being discovered, hurricanes and why there seems to be a rise in the severity, earthquakes and how they shape our planet, etc.

I have three different NSTA (National Science Teacher Association) feeds that i am following.  One is about inquiry science teaching and this is something I would like to work towards in my classroom so I have been reading the updates but I know that it is going to take time to teach the students how to inquire....

The main way I have incorporated my RSS page into my classroom is to start discussions at the beginning of class between students regarding current events regarding science.  I plan on creating an RSS page for each of my classes and allowing the students to pick SCIENCE feeds that they would like to follow.  I'm not sure how well it will work, but I want to give the students an opportunity to have a say in the material we talk about.
The next series of posts will be screen shots of my RSS page.