RSS

== =RSS= 

What is RSS?
Definitions of **RSS feeds** on the Web: = =
 * Really Simple Syndication is a popular technology for notifying users of updates to content in a website, blog, or Internet TV channel.
 * http://studio.brightcove.com/library/help/glossary_help.cfm
 * RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.
 * [|http://wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_Feed]
 * Watch this short video on what RSS is (in Plain English)
 * http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

RSS feeders
//Online RSS readers require the creation of an account.// Bloglines - http://www.bloglines.com/ Netvibes - http://www.netvibes.com/ My Yahoo - http://cm.my.yahoo.com/ Google Reader - http://www.google.com/reader/
 * [|Netvibes]
 * [|Pageflakes]
 * [|Bloglines]
 * [|Google Reader]
 * [|Grazr]

Setting up Feeds

 * 1) Create an account (free) on a blog reader (I'll use Google Reader as an example)
 * 2) Click on "__Add subscription__"
 * 3) In another window, open up a blog to which you want to subscribe. Here are a few I (Davinna) value:
 * [|Never Ending Search] by Joyce Valenza "//A discussion of information fluency, teaching, and learning in the 21st century."//
 * [|Digital Reshift] by Christopher Harris //"Technology trends and information for school libraries."//
 * [|Librarian in Black] by Sarah Houghton-Jan "//resources and discussions for the 'tech-librarians-by-default' among us"//
 * 1) Copy and paste the URL of the blog in to the Google Reader "-__Add subscription__" box
 * Note: some blogs and feeds will have an orange button [[image:http://iltworkshop.pbwiki.com/f/rss-icon.jpg width="41" height="27"]] that you need to click on in order to get the feed URL.
 * 1) Click the "Add" button

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 * Only subscribe to blogs that are meaningful to you.

Application in K-12 Learning

 * Students can get RSS feeds on a specific news topic, such as climate change. Source: [|RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators]
 * If a teacher is having students write blogs, the teacher can have all of the blogs come to him/her with a blog reader, instead of going to all thirty blog sites. ( Will Richardson, author of web-logged, saves a lot of time and keeps all of his classes paperless this way) Source: [|RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators]

Visit the RSS for Educators Resource Page