RSS Feeds

As I was exploring music education blog sites, I had some difficulty finding a site that had an RSS feed to add to my new blogsline reader.  Some had none and some were sign up for e-mail notice. This was really disappointing as I found some great sites. Eventually, I started finding some RSS feed sites. I picked MusicEdMagic to add the RSS feed to this blog site. This site had some neat features of free music to download in addition to music education articles. I must admit, I was frustrated when I went to add this feed since I could not find the “Add a Gadget” feature in this blog site. Eventually I had success – I reread the directions a couple of more times before everything clicked for me!

I believe that using a reader like Blogsline or Goggle Reader would be a great asset to the classroom. I know of some classrooms that like to use the newspaper as part of their class. With budget cuts, this is not possible for some schools. Signing up for the news through a reader would be a great way to continue using the news in the classroom especially for current events.

RSS use in my instrumental lessons will be simply providing feeds of different sites that might be of interest to parents and students on my blog site. This would cover the Communication and Collaboration in the NETS-S Document.