Thing 5 - RSS Findings

In my couple of months of exploring RSS Feeds I am learning that you need to go back and clean things up. I am finding that I can't keep up with all my feeds. If I let it go for a couple days, all of the sudden I have over 200 feeds. It starts to get a bit overwhelming. I am starting to take note of blogs that maybe I stumbled across and thought it would be great to follow and they aren't really that great. So my advice so far... don't sign up for everything. Start to take note of blogs you really like and edit frequently.

Thing 4 - RSS Feeds

I have actually been using RSS Feeds for a while. I have had the opportunity to become fluent on many different types of devices as well. I origionally used the website "Blogger" to read various blogs. About 4 months ago I began using Google Reader as an RSS feeder and at about the same time I began exploring different RSS Feed apps for my iPhone. I discovered several that are cool but settled on a great app called Feeddler Pro. Most feeder apps use a reader like Google Reader to bring the information to the app. Recently, I just picked up an iPad2 and have started looking for a nice RSS Feeder that utilizes the larger screen and looks really nice. If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear from ya.

Thing 3 - Explore what it means to be a lifelong learner.

Create a new post on your blog about why your hardest and easiest habits are what they are for you, and what things you can do to get better at the hardest one. Why is the easiest one so easy for you?

Habit number 5 (Teach/Mentor Others) is the most difficult habit for me. I find that when dealing with the subject of technology I am very confident and take a leadership role quite frequently. Outside of technology within the subject of music I find that there are times where I doubt my leadership with other teachers thinking to myself that there are better options than me. I find this a bit strange to put this category in my difficult habit because I have been a mentor but, sometimes I am surprised that I would be asked to be a mentor. Ways that I could improve on this would be by first and foremost gaining confidence as a mentor teacher. I think that being a musician I have placed myself in a very humble role understanding that there are always better educators/musicians out there but I need to really reflect on the fact that I am a competent musician / educator and have the capacity to be a great mentor as well.

Habit number 6 (Use technology to your advantage.) is the easiest. It is the easiest because I have always had a strong interest in technology of all kinds. I am always trying to figure out new and creative ways I can use it within my classroom and to inspire learning.