When I first started reading about the RSS, I thought that I would never use it. An RSS aggregator sounded like something that would only make my life more complicated; I didn't think that I would ever have enough time to actually read through all of my feeds on a daily or even weekly basis. I also thought that an RSS feed would be a lot like my spam folder in my email account, a destination filled with stuff that I don't need to know and don't really care about. As I read into the chapter some more and started to learn more about the capabilities of the RSS, I thought that perhaps I could handle using it. Now that I have finished reading the chapter, I think that an RSS is not such a bad thing, or a complicated thing. I think that after you get through the initial set up, an RSS feed actually saves you time and brings you current, relevant, and interesting information. An RSS aggregator is personalized, not irrelevant! An RSS also does all of the work for you, so why not use it. (I find it to be really cool that an application can find information that fits what you care about, and bring all of that information to one place for you.)
I honestly do not think that I would ever have my students use RSS, because I plan on teaching elementary students; however, I feel that high school teachers could definitely have their students learn about and use an RSS aggregator. I think that the RSS would be a great application to teach a history, english, or any high school class to use. For me though, even if I taught older elementary students, such as middle schoolers, I would be teaching mathematics and I do not really see the need for introducing RSS to middle schoolers in a mathematics classroom. Even though I do not think that I will ever introduce my students to the RSS, I will definitely use it myself and encourage my colleagues to do the same.
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