RSS in Education

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

RSS in Education
This is my first experience using RSS feeds in education or in my personal life. Signing up for Google Reader was easy; but, I found the web tool harder to navigate than I expected. Out of all of the web tools that we have researched and used, I find this one to be the most challenging to use. With this particular web tool, I will need to investigate RSS feeds much further compared to previous web tools in order to feel comfortable introducing them to my students and fellow educators. After experimenting with RSS for a little bit, I was able to add a few subscriptions related to education and create a tag.One of the most intriguing aspects of RSS feeds is the possibility to use RSS search feeds for student research for projects and papers. Richardson (2010) explains that students can use RSS search feeds to do research 24/7, but the RSS feed does the work. I also am very interested in learning how to use RSS feeds to create a web page. Does anyone one have some examples of how they have used RSS feeds?References:Richardson, W. (2010). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful Web tools for classrooms. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Posted by Bethany June at 5:08 PM


4 comments:

Darlene Kellner said...
Unfortunately Bethany, I too am a novice to RSS feeds. So I don't have any examples of uses of RSS feeds with students. I believe this tool can help both students and teachers keep up to date on their areas of interest, with a lot less time invested on their part.
October 26, 2010 6:47 PM

Darlene Kellner said...
I tried to RSS feed to your blog, but it seems you make a completely new blog for each creation activity rather than a new post on the same blog. Is there any way you have found to get a feed from the person rather than the blog?
October 26, 2010 6:50 PM

gpattisoned614 said...
Bethany,I haven't had the opportunity to work with students and RSS feeds. I can see how they could be valuable for research, but filtering them for age appropriate material might be difficult. Also, trying to keep up with all the feeds can still be time consuming.
October 28, 2010 3:02 PM

Bethany June said...
Darlene,In Google Reader on the left hand side there is a section that says, "People you follow." This reminds me of twitter. I tried to search for you there, but there were zero results. There must be a way to get a feed from a person if they share things, but at this time I do not know how to proceed with that.Bethany