When creating an RSS reader through my Google email account, it connected the blogs I am already subscribed to in Blogger. With the Google reader you can read new updates from your favorite websites and blogs directly through your live feed. I like this tool because you do not have to go directly to the site and search for new content. This is an easy way to bypass a lot of wasted time.
I think this technology is a good idea for teachers to use with older children that have online assignments to do research with or look at different websites for homework. There is a "trends" tab that allows you to track how many blogs you have read and the percentage of your live feed that you have read in your updates. You can look at it by the last thirty days, time of day, and day of the week. This can be used by teachers daily to check on what the students have read for their assignments and how often they have read.
I could use this technology to help parents stay up to date on my classroom blog. They can have the option of subscribing to the class's blog and getting updates through the Google reader instead of searching through the pages of the blog to see what has been updated. This is a good way for the parents to get all those reminders I put in the blog daily. This will keep parents informed and will then have no excuse as to why they did not see information the child needed for the next day at school. No more complaining parents about their child not bringing papers home because it will not matter! They will have all the information at their finger tips anywhere they go.
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