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Using RSS[[image:http://www.clker.com/cliparts/0/e/4/f/12065637851779660844SRD_RSS_Logo.svg.thumb.png width="136" height="136" align="left"]] Feeds In An Educational Setting

 * What is RSS?**

Here is a link to a nice short summary of RSS, some uses for teachers and students, and some simple how to's concerning RSS [|RSS Help]

===[|Bringing the World Wide Web to You] A great PPT Slideshow ===

Topic: How RSS Can Be Used in the Classroom
Examples:
 * 1) Student Blogs - things they are passionate about and future career choices
 * 2) What interests our students outside of the classroom?
 * 3) Wasted time is no longer a concern - the WWW will come to you
 * 4) Connecting classrooms from one country to another
 * 5) Find other teachers in the world that could provide insight for our research topics
 * 6) Find specialists to give [|Skype] interviews for students

Why RSS Feeds?

 * Topic:** Classroom/School Feeds
 * Examples:**


 * 1) School Blogs - parents receive notification of new postings
 * 2) Assignment Blog - absent students can keep up
 * 3) Classroom Calendar
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Photo feeds - classrooms can subscribe to photos with certain tags "storms"
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Students doing research papers can subscribe to any new information published on their topic
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Blog about how libraries are using Rss feeds]
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">School safety and anti-bullying campaigns


 * Topic:** Social Bookmarking
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Near election times, social studies students could subscribe to the RSS feed of selected candidates
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Keep track of all your favorite websites regarding your interests or projects
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Share and collaborate with others
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Subscribe to wiki pages and social pages of your favorite authors, musicians, actors, etc.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Students can subscribe to calendars of favorite teams or entertainers
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Internet safety

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Topic:** Create specialized feeds <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Blogs-Students can subscribe to a certain blog and keep up with the new information using <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> the Rss feed
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Ideas for student projects - podcasts
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Feeds for available homes in the school district
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Auction items schools are looking to purchase
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Feeds from law enforcement concerning sexual predators
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Community safety

Here is a wonderful slide show: [|RSS for Educators]

Popular Aggregators [|Bloglines] [|Google Reader] [|Netvibes]

Page Link To Some Award Winning RSS Readers and Download sites [|Find an RSS Reader]

[|Information Avalanche]- site includes computer-based, web-based, and create your own feeds It also has ten tips for your classroom.

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