Remember when the paperboy would throw the newspaper on your driveway once in the morning and again in the afternoon? That was how we got the latest news of the day. Now we are inundated with news, news on the cell phone, news on the computer at work, news on the computer at home, news on all more than 20 Cable channels. News, News everywhere. So now we are blasted with news everywhere and it is difficult to filter what is important to us.
RSS feeds is the new sophisticated paper boy. Not only does he deliver the information to you directly but, he delivers the news the news you want and filters out the rest.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and the news aggregator is the program you download to read the RSS feeds. Meg Ormiston describes it as "the News Aggregator is the television set and the RSS feeds are the channels you can select".
- Teacher can assign students a RSS feed to subscribe to, they are responsible for summarizing newsworthy information and can then update class. (great for current events)
- Have students subscribe to your class blog and when new and important information comes in they are sure to see it quickly.
- As a teacher if you have assigned students to create a wikki, blog or other site then as a teacher you can subscribe to their RSS feed and when they update you get the information.
- Instead of journaling students can create a blog for all journal entries. When the journals have been updated the feed goes directly to the teacher for grade.
- Educators can follow other educators and capitalize on each others work in a collborative fashion rather than reinventing the wheel each time.
- Professional Development on demand: Educators can keep up with their favorite author, blogger and podcaster. Follow them and watch/listen/read when you have a free minute or two.
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