Blogs, Wikis, and RSS
Blogs and wikis are similar but may have many different uses in the classroom. Since blogs are more easily regulated, I would be more likely to utilize this tool in my classroom for the first time. I especially like the aspect of being able to control the major topic and having the students post comments about the chosen topic. For the Algebra curriculum that I teach, I would like to pose a problem as a blog entry, have students post their solutions, and respond to one another as comments.
Reading about RSS was intereresting since I had never herd about it before. I found out that you are able to take feeds from multiple sites and add the to an aggregator which collects information from all of the sites. This program will save me quite a bit of time since there will be less clicking around and searching sites. All of the updated information will come to me instead!
