Chapters 3 and 5

RSS seems pretty amazing. I think I will have students set up RSS as well as their weblogs the first week of school.
Incorporating RSS and weblogs into the curriculum would be easy, especially since the English curriculum is based around reading and writing. Students could respond to RSS in their weblogs. When I was a student, I had to cut out a newspaper article and paste it on loose leaf paper and write a half page in an assignment called "Current Events." In my classroom students would just need to access their RSS feed, find an article they like, link it to their blog and write their "Current Events" online. As I think about this, I am thinking about the dozen or so students I know whose grades have been devastated by forgetting materials, whether it be completed assignments or pencils and paper.