So I'm posting this at the last minute because last night my Internet crashed and I had to re-do a large part of my lesson plan. Luckily I managed to copy and paste the contents of my lesson plan into a Word document before my computer shut down. Anyhoo, I enjoyed doing the lesson plan. The Google spreadsheet is a very efficient format for a project like this. Additionally, I'd like to note that I did not follow the directions for the RSS lab. See I have a personal feed reader with Yahoo that I keep up with regularly so instead of following the Google Reader (which I am now subscribed to) I used Yahoo so I will report on my experiences with that.
Yahoo is a lot different from Google. It allows you to personalize your page and trick it out with backgrounds and pictures and music. I love NPR so I follow them and several of their feeds. Also, as a journalist, it is my business to keep up with the news. I like the Google reader format better because I feel like it's less cluttered and no-nonsense. With such varied interests, I find news feeds very useful. They allow you to get a taste of all the different types of news and choose which ones to explore more in-depth.
Because I am posting this at the last minute and it is now time to go to class, I will say that this week's assignments were very useful and I know that I can and will use them throughout my teaching career.
I'd like to add that I kind of stole some of Prof. Sessums' teaching techniques in formulating my lesson plan. The utilization of blogs, journals and twitter in instruction I modeled after the techniques in this course. Not because I'm unoriginal or trying to copy, but because I plan to use them in my own classroom. The tools are very relevant and students respond to things that are relevant to them personally.
Have mercy Prof. Sessums for my last-minuteness please!
Ciao
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