RSS assignment February 19, 2008
Posted by Matthew Woolums in Conference Sessions.trackback
I recently revamped much of the online class that I teach for Lesley University. The class is comprised of 6 two-week modules. Each module has two parts, usually one longer assignment, and the other a collection of shorter assignments. In reorganizing the assignments, I placed two previously separated assignments together. In one assignment, the class finds blogs to keep track of and review in an effort to better understand what blogs are and how they work. In the other assignment, the class sets up an RSS feed and adds a number of feeds. They report back on the experience, and which feeds they selected.
Okay, in hindsight, this may be obvious, but shouldn’t these be the same assignment? At one time it seemed to make sense to provide multiple activities, but now that the two assignments are together in one place, it sure feels like it might have been more successful if they were combined into just a single assignment.
With so much that could be included in the class, it is sometimes difficult to know what to keep. There are additional assignments for setting up a their own blogs, and visiting each others blogs to leave comments, but I’m interested to know how others ‘teach’ blogs and RSS. If you have any successful strategies, or definite pitfalls to avoid, please leave me a comment on them.
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