RSS: What Does It Mean for the Classroom Teacher?

Stephen Rahn, from the Kennesaw State University Educational Technology Training Center, spoke on the same topic I'm presenting on in the morning.  You can see that presentation on my podcast, at http://edtech.typepad.com/.  Stephen started with a bit of technical info for background.  A good resource is atomenabled.org if you are a developer & need help.  There are two important parts to know about:  Feeds & Aggregators.  Feeds are the content.  Aggregators let's you read the content.

Advantages include reading multiple websites from one location, no spam, no pop ups, keeping up with blogs, and of course organization of feeds.

He agrees with me, in that services that utilize email are just not good solutions.  If you need to create feeds for websites built in DreamWeaver, there is a product out there.  He recommended http://www.feedforall.com for creating RSS feeds.

Educational uses include sites for government stats, news from the Department of Education, a class calendar (http://www.rsscalendar.com), quote of the day, government announcements, science news, keeping up with student blogs and wiki's, research journals, current news, media reviews, sharing resources, and keeping up with teacher blogs.