Rip, Mix, Learn: RSS - THE Killer App for Educators

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Saturday, January 28, 2006

RSS - THE Killer App for Educators

There are many introductions to RSS available on the internet. This is my version of a Real Simple Summary. ;-)

What is a "Killer App"

RDF Site Summary vrs.
Rich Site Syndication vrs.
Real Simple Syndication vrs.
XML

What is "Atom?"

Feeds and Aggregators; Magazine Subscriptions and Mailboxes

Bloglines

Newspaper RSS feeds

Recognizing feeds and how to use them

Subscribe to the Future

Finding more feeds: Blogrolls; your browser

screencast tutorial on Bloglines

Educator's Guide to RSS.pdf (by Will Richardson)

50+ RSS Ideas for Educators v1.11 (by Quentin D'Souza)

Let's sign up and find some feeds! (Time: 10 min)

More to Explore
Things you can do with RSS.

Cool things teachers can do with RSS. (Example)

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