I do like using an RSS feed to keep up on some blogs. There were a few that I liked to check but found that I was not good about visiting regularly. Now I can just use RSS to keep up on all of them.

I'm using Google Reader. I tried Bloglines and did not like it. I had to visit the website and login each time, so I didn't feel like I had gained much. With the Google Reader I can click over to it from my iGoogle homepage. I can view it from any internet connection, and it's easy to remember the one login and password. I have found that one of my feeds is providing too many articles a day and too few are useful, so it will be deleted. I'm sure I can find other, better stuff. I need to start using the folder options on Google Reader as well since there are professional things as well as personal things that I'd like to follow.

If I were to use RSS with students, I think it would be to show them how to set up a feed to help with information for research projects. Many of our students already have a gmail account and use iGoogle, so the Google Reader would work well for them. I'd like to work with some of our high school students to set up RSS reads for their personal interests such as sports, teams, trucks, tractors etc. This would fall under the NETS-S 5-d, Digital Citizenship, demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.