Imagine being up to date on all your favor topics, sports, news, education, friends, and more. This is an RSS feeder. It does just that, keep you feed full of the information that you crave. This will cut the amount of time you spend searching and looking for that information by sending you a direct update.
In education this Web 2.0 tool is increasing the ease for collaboration in all sorts of aspects. These include and are not limited to teacher student, teacher-parent, and student-parent.
The RSS tool does need to work with another tool, such as Google reader. Which stores your RSS feeds and gives you a one-stop browse to check your updates. In the classroom this would beneficial such as blogging or a website of that supplies RSS feed. A public school in West Michigan, Mona Shores http://www.monashores.net utilizes the RSS feeder to keep community up to date with district news.
For some of us educators setting up an RSS feed may seem difficult. This is where Will Richardson at http://weblogg-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/RSSFAQ4.pdf
The article gives examples of step-by-step setup for an RSS feed for a classroom. He supplies additional links to social bookmarking sites, blog sites, and linking news links.
Many times RSS feeds are a good resource. They keep you updated on changes or article that interest you. At Educational Weekly, http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/feeds/index.html you are able to choose the topics that you would like to subscribe to. The site has a list of topics, blogs, and a teacher magazine. Some of the RSS feeds can be down loaded as widgets and placed on your website or blog.
When education does utilize the RSS tool it is very powerful, as I have read in my net article. This article identifies 15 successful uses for the tool, from sharing resources to class blogs to keeping informed. In looking at these feeds, it will save time for future college students and current college students to keep updated on information. Although the information in this article seems geared toward college, I can see where primary education could take advantage of these tools and suggestions being described. The address of this article is http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-and-education.htm
To understand how RSS works, this site http://www.slideshare.net/leonardstern/rss-in-education gives a very detailed description on what it stands for and how it is utilized. The slide then breaks the information down how RSS is used in Education. As an instructor the importance is time and material comprehension. The author discusses vital importance of blogs, classroom feeds , school and community newsfeeds are practical to RSS feeds. Districts offer this information, however lack the initiative to offer RSS feeds to save time.
The U.S. Department of Education and local state government education utilize RSS feeds for districts and their staff. RSS feeds, safe time and money for the schools when inquiring information that is vital for staying current. This site is http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/rssnewsfeed.html.
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