RSS Feeds in Education

This page explains what an rss feed is and how they can be used in education. I am just beginning my exploration is rss in education. Immediately I see some wonderful applications, but I have limited programming experience and I am getting lost in some of the sites. To the best of my ability I will try to rss feeds into plain language and clearly explain how they may be used in education. If you have any suggestions or additions to this page please e-mail me! meg@techteachers.com

Tutorial to get started, download in Word

Links to Background Information

http://radio.weblogs.com/ The 100 most subscribed to feeds.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Help with understand rss feeds.

http://www.weblogg-ed.com/rss_for_ed A tutorial for educators to learn more about rss feeds.

http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=2010 What is an rss and what is possible in education...

http://www.naa.org/presstime/PTArtPage.cfm?AID=4924 Just what we need, an article that explains rss feeds in plain English!

http://www.downes.ca/files/RSS_Educ.htm This is a good overview, explaining why developers for education might be interested.

http://www.prweb.com/rss.php Once you have your news aggregator set to go here is a good list of rss feeds to select from.

http://www.island.net/~leslies/blog/stories/2003/04/11/rssFeedsFromLearningObjectRepositoriesKnownExamples.html More education feeds to explore.

http://weblogs.asp.net/alexbarn/archive/2004/05/22/139461.aspx Rss versus e-mail.

http://www.softpile.com/rss/ A large collection of feeds.

http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=2010 Information and background.

http://www.galileoweb.org/matsumoto/ Check out the rss feed of a high school teacher

http://www.weblogg-ed.com/rss_links Links and resources about rss in education.

School Feeds

http://www.travisusd.k12.ca.us/travisusd/RSS/About_RSS.asp Feeds from Travis USD in CA.

http://www.bryanisd.org/default.asp?pageID=170 Bryan ISD school district feed, subscribe and see how they are using rss feeds.

News Aggregators

http://www.sharpreader.net/ This is the free program I use to read my rss feeds.

http://www.newsgator.com/ This aggregator runs in Microsoft Outlook, $29 per year.

http://www.bloglines.com/ Organizes your Blogs and news

http://www.serence.com/site.php?action=ser_products,prod_klipfolio A small screen aggregator.

http://radio.userland.com/ Radio Userland is about $40.00

http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Technical_Services/Cataloguing/Metadata/RDF/Applications/RSS/News_Readers/ Google's collection of resources.

http://www.newsmonster.org/ Newsmonster is a web based aggregate, many new features.

An Open Source Encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Explore this open source encyclopedia filled with over 250,000 articles.

Print News vs. Digital News

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040612/fob7.asp Great article about newspapers vs. information on a Palm.

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