RSS Feed #2 (Window View Relieving Stress)

Inside a classroom, no teacher wants their student sitting by the window.  The environment inside a class room is to plain and boring.  If it wasn’t for the posters on reading and learning on the walls, students would be pretty convinced they were sitting inside a penitentiary. Though most students are easily distracted when it comes to the window seat, teachers may begin to admire this seat for their students.  Most teachers will notice that the trouble making student is normally by the window, gazing into the outside world.  If teachers would read this news feed I found, then there would probably be more windows in the classroom.

            During my daily search for RSS feeds, I came across one that interests me in Scientific American.  The title said “Window View Beats TV for Stress.”  A report in the Journal of Environmental Psychology said televised nature-scenes are no comparison to an actual window.  Hooked up to a heart monitor, each student in the study performed a sequence of complicated mental tests.  They placed one group of testing students in a room with a large window, while the other group was sat in front of a huge flat screen television.  The television had the exact same view as the window in the other room, recorded by a live camera.  Although the students might have been distracted a little more with the window, the study showed them less stressed than the students with a T.V. view.  The Journal of Environmental Psychology also had this to say, “Your T.V. may be a window on the world, but it’s no substitute for the real deal.”

            The author of this feed organized their information very well.  Most news feeds are excruciatingly long and seem to take forever to read, however this one was different.  “Window View Beats T.V. for Stress,” was rather short, therefore easier to keep the readers interests.  Even though the feed was short, there was plenty of information to show the point in the news feed.  By reading this feed, now I will most likely sit by a window while reading, writing, or just thinking.  I enjoy reading the feeds on studies people have tested. Therefore I enjoyed reading the content in this feed.