RSS or Real Simple Syndication - What? OK so we have another acronym in education and technology. I don't think there are enough acronyms in education or technology. All joking aside, if you are an educator then RSS feeds are definitely something you should be aware of. In a simple explanation RSS allows the educator to create something like an online newspaper with only information they want to read about. Instead of going through the electronic paper to see what topics they are interested in they only see things that they have previously marked as being interested in or subscribing to. Think of it this way: You spend an afternoon browsing through the Internet doing searches for a specific topic and find some great weblogs. You select those that you like the most and can subscribe to them using Google Reader or your own chosen reader. (Not every blog can be subscribed to yet.) The next time you go online you can go to one web page and it would have a small preview of every blog you subscribed to. This way you can quickly scan your personally created reader page and pick those articles that you want to see more on. You can save a great amount of time by not having to go all over the Internet finding what you already know is of interest.
I know the above information makes it sound more simple than many believe it to be, but if you go to http://www.google.com/reader you can try it for yourself. You will find that with a little time spent you can create a new favorite website because you can pick all the content. The time spent will be well worth the effort. I think that the most time consuming component is finding blogs that allow subscribing to which I have an interest in. One website that has a number of links with RSS tools can be found here. http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/WWW/Feed_Readers/
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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