One tool teachers can use to help manage the wealth of information available today is the RSS. I've included a definition of RSS as well as provided some instructional videos from YouTube on RSS.
RSS
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| Filename extension | .rss, .xml |
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| Internet media type | application/rss+xml (Registration Being Prepared)[1] |
| Type of format | Web syndication |
| Extended from | XML |
RSS (an abbreviation for Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.[2] An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed",[3] or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. RSS feeds can be read using softwarecalled an "RSS reader", "feed reader", or "aggregator", which can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based. A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs. The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed's URI (often referred to informally as a "URL" (uniform resource locater), although technically the two terms are not exactly synonymous) into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds.
RSS formats are specified using XML, a generic specification for the creation of data formats. Although RSS formats have evolved since March 1999,[4] the RSS icon ("
Wikipedia. (2009). Definition. Retrieved April 7, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
RSS in Plain English, How to Use RSS Feeds, RSS-Feeds, Readers, and How to Use RSS (Videos). (2009). Retrieved April 7, 2009, from www.youtube.com
This is great for quickly explaining RSS. I have a couple of this videos in my own website. I hope you can see how useful this is... information coming to us.
ReplyDeleteLinda
Thank you. I agree that having information coming to us is much more convenient and saves so much time. Is there some way I can link to your Netvibes to capture some of the information you have posted. You have some excellent resources that I know would be helpful to our teachers.
ReplyDeleteDiane Wright