I am glad for the delasalle.ph igoogle/email accounts (despite some feature, data ownership and privacy limitations). There's really a lot you can do with it. Earlier in the schoolyear, Ms. Cielo and I found out how to maximize Gdocs filesharing and storing features during the AUDRN workshop. Later on, Sir Ronnie and I found time to tinker with GDocs form creator to make surveys for classroom and CFA use. Recently, I have been encouraging students to get more reading done by subscribing to their fave blogs using RSS functions and Google Reader.
Anyway, this might be old news for some tech-savvy educators out there, but I recently discovered a way to make blog-checking easier--by subscribing to feeds via Google Reader, yes--PLUS by embedding whole folders (I made one for each class) of blog feeds as a blogroll/list on your own blog or wordpress site. I use blogger to archive these and before I discovered this particular blogroll embed in Greader, I've always dreaded going through that tedious task of manually putting in blog URLs into lists (hah, ang tamad talaga).
But there you are! I just wish there were better design templates. Ah, well, be content, Ruby, you schmuck!
I would LOVE to sit down with fellow teachers who do not know this yet so I could share why blogging makes a better student output tool. I would love to share experience with it (positive and negative as well) and how to make blogging as an educational tool less of a headache. Of course, I would definitely appreciate hearing what tools and techniques you have found to be useful as well.
All we'll need is a decent internet connection and coffee. Message me!! :)
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