Brian’s blog

The RSS feeds that I’ve looked and tracked throughout the semester are: techlearning.com, bobcast (which never updated), NPR Topics: Education, Moving at the Speed of Creativity, dig.com (education stories), and my four group member’s blogs. At the beginning of the semester when I first started to track these RSS feeds some of the stories that I came across ranged from Michigan Schools Embracing Wind Power, Biodiesel (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89369909&ft=1&f=1013), to One Laptop Per Child Plan: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89231795&ft=1&f=1013

Both of these articles come from NPR.com (National Public Radio) and have strong relations with technology in the educational field. The plan of giving each and every child a cheap laptop is a tremendous idea to strengthen their technological abilities, but it also links them to the Internet more easily (instead of two classroom computers.)

Another really interesting story that I came across was about how Google sites can be used as a classroom-learning tool. http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/04/11/google-sites-as-a-classroom-learning-portal/

This is a way to integrate blogs, multimedia, and other technological tools as a one all learning tool. This is really important because it can get all the students involved in a classroom environment on the internet and gets them thinking in many different ways by asking questions and reading other people’s questions.