Blogs and RSS Feeds

I think blogs would be great for having a way that students and their parents can access information about that class anytime. I would put important documents or assignments that the students and parents could access. I think it would also be fun to post any cool activates we did in class for the parents to see and get excited about. Also I think it would be great to help the parents feel more involved with their students learning.

Some of the RSS feeds that I thought would be cool to use in the classroom is first an RSS feed that tells all the recent earthquakes around the world that are larger than a 5.0 in magnitude. This would be fun to have the students connect what they learned in class to the real world. It would also be cool to look at the location of the earthquake and determine what type it was. Also I subscribed to the NASA earth observatory image of the day. That is just to have fun looking at awesome high resolutions images. Lastly I subscribe to some self help RSS feeds to better manage my time and become a better teacher.