3-B-2 Learning Via RSS
RSS can be a powerful tool for a teacher. If student’s are blogging or using wikis an RSS reader can be the one place to see all student activity. RSS is vital because going to 100 different blogs a day or a week is simply overwhelming. RSS can allow a teacher to give immediate feedback to students and monitor who is contributing and who isn’t. RSS can be a professional development tool also. Using a site like edutagger or delicious a teacher can find blogs or websites with RSS feeds of interest and drop them into the reader. An RSS reader like Google Reader can be a helpful search engine to find things in other people’s online work by using the search function. These are immediate ways RSS can enhance my learning and instructional strategies.
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If you are trying to manage multiple student blogs, RSS is a very valuable tool. You certainly save a lot of time knowing when postings have been made rather than making time consuming checks and rechecks.
I agree, I am using it more and more in my own classes. I have to make myself pare down the subscriptions so there isn’t so much to read!