RSS Feeds

RSS feeds are an interesting way to keep weblogs organized. Here are three ways teachers can use the RSS feed in their classrooms.

1. Weblogs and RSS feeds
If your classroom alread has weblogs, it may be a lot of work as a teacher to check out each students work. However, Richardson states, "Instead of checking out all 25 student Weblogs every day, you could just collect their work in your aggregator using their RSS feeds"(81). This is similar to what we se up through bloglines. Now it is more convenient to check the new content on our peers' blogs.

2. RSS News Feed
As teachers, we may want our students to find news weblogs to use as a referance or to use in a paper. Now, Google and Yahoo News allow us to subscribe to news feeds. Both of these sites have made it possible to "track standing searches with RSS feeds"(82). This is a great RSS feed for students to subscribe to. Now they can keep up-to-date with current events while incorporating technology.

3. RSS Feeds for Wbsites
I find this really useful in the classroom. Now you can "create an RSS feed from a search of google sites"(83). This means that if there is new content added to a site or a new site is created ona particular topic, you will get informed in your aggregator. This could help us talk about different topics of research that we may use in our classroom.