5 RSS The New Killer App for Educators

What is the meaning of RSS?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. In RSS you have the news and ideas of the day come to your aggregator. For example: Reader will actually help you find RSS feeds at your favorite sites if they are available. For instance, just click on "Add Subscription" and type in "NASA". When you click "Add," you'll

see all sorts of  feeds that the space agency provides.

How can you start using this in your school and in your classroom?

Well, there are a number of different ways that RSS feeds can add to your knowledge base, help you communicate, and make your teaching better:

*RSS Feeds With Student Weblogs
Instead of checking out all 25 (or 30, or more) student Weblogs every day,You could just collect their work in your aggregator using their RSS feeds.
With some Weblog packages, you can even subscribe to feeds that show new comments on the various sites.

*RSS Feeds Without Student Weblogs
If your students don't have Weblogs, you may want to have them set up their own Google Reader account.
It can be an excellent tool for them becuse they can have more information about news and it could be an beginning to investigate.

*RSS Search Feeds
It could be a very important tool for students to search or feed more information about any topic.

*RSS Feeds for News Searches
Google News and Yahoo News
*Google. Just go to News.Google.com and click the "Advanced Search" link for search new page and at the same time you look for them to agregate what you prefer.
*Yahoo News Just go to tinyurl.comlnlp, put in your search terms, and copy and paste the address into your Google Reader to look for new pages and to agregate them.

*RSS Feeds for News Group Searches
If you are thinking in agrgate any group ,you can also search Internet news groups and get an RSS feed of the results. you can use Groups.Google.com, do a search, and in the results, click on the link of the group where the posting came from.