Thing 5

RSS can be a difficult concept for some to grasp right away - what questions do you have? What didn't work or doesn't make sense? How might you use RSS in your personal or professional life? Find anything in your searching that you'd recommend to others?

I really don't have any questions about RSS. I really see its functionality. Unfortunately, I am having a very hard time finding the kinds of bloggers that I want. It seems to me that there are a large number of whiners out there hoping someone else will listen to them whine. (maybe that's just the stuff I seem to be good at searching for.)

Does anyone have some good tips for finding good math based blogs? I am going to keep looking, and once I get the hang of some more of the things available perhaps I will be that blogger. BUT until then what do you suggest?

I have already set up the RSS on our home computer to help my husband with his newpaper reading and I can't wait to show my mom! For people who do a lot of online reading this is great stuff!

Thing 4 (RSS)

It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of blogs out there - how do handle information overload and how do you think RSS might help?

I feel completely overwhelmed, ad I think that RSS can definitely help with reducing that feeling. It has made me more aware of the things that I don't know that my students are, more likely than not, using daily.  

Another major issue I am feeling is not knowing how to do a good search to find blogs that really pertain to the things I am interested in. I don't even know if I have math teacher friends that look at other math blogs. I will have to start that conversation at lunch one day to see if anyone is reading anything they especially like. 

yeah, overwhelmed is an understatement.