My Experience With RSS Feeders

Wow what a great tool. This will definitely become part of my educational and professional life for ever. To not have my e-mail inbox full of daily updates from sources I have to track in case there is a relevant piece of new information will be wonderful. I check, when I have time, and them all at once. This is perfect and a must have for students of today (not tomorrow as the future of education has arrived).

While investigating and exploring some of these messages I found an interesting post that is a few years old by Stefan Knapen that was truly enlightening and opened my eyes to yet another tool for a students PLE. The post was on taking notes quickly, which I know that I, and many other students, struggle with. He of course mentions the Cornell Notes but this is a system and not one designed for speed. Stefan takes a simple principle that every one currently uses while creating a text message and applies it to notes. We all use them, (BRB for be right back or LOL for laugh out load) so why not in a way that will help. The student can create a simple little appendix of terms for key common phrases or words and quickly write them done instead of writing out the entire thing. Once the class is complete, the student simply goes back and fills in the actual word or phrase. They will always keep up with the lecture.The piece that really stuck out for me was the two downloads, for a laptop "Wordpilot", which I have already added to my PLE and "Word Extendor" for MAC. I am going to check for a version for my Ipad but I am sure it will be there. These help you do exactly the same thing but when you create the abbreviations and then use them, the computer automatically fills in the word or phrase. Great tools to add to the PLE.

Jeff