RSS+and+Readers

Uses of RSS in the Education

 * Keep abreast of current events in news, education, politics and professional organizations.
 * Receive updates to your favorite blogs.
 * Subscribe to and network with educational bloggers in your field of study.
 * Share your feeds with other educators. View their feeds.
 * Make announcements to students after class.
 * Track student blogs and wikis.
 * Subscribe to Podcasts.
 * Students can track each other's blogs.
 * Students can share their feeds with each other, creating a collaborative research environment.
 * Students can become more globally aware by subscribing to news and current affairs sites.

**What RSS Does for Students**

 * Helps break down the walls of the classroom to provide connections to the outside world.

**Lesson Plans & Ideas**

 * Have students aggregate news sources with the RSS Reader of their choice and publish those onto the public facing side of their Reader. Have them evaluate one another's sources and take guesses about their interests and beliefs.


 * Have students create their own blog and subscribe to each other. Have them make entries and ask them to stay abreast of one another's ideas. Reference their blogs in class as model participation.

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Google Reader is particularly suited to viewing the contents of many RSS feeds at one sitting on one screen and displays RSS much like your email. It has the best search and flagging system. It has a public facing blog like publishing platform for shared items; its limitations are that the reader would only see the most recent posts. Netvibes has a nice feel to it and provides a way to paginate your views so that you can put feeds into different bins and then read them like a newspaper. It is the fastest and smoothest of the flash-based reader. It has a public facing publishing platform called "Universe" which allows you to post all the blogs you'd like to share with the public. Pageflakes is the best reader at publishing aggregations of feeds, called "pagecasts." It's a little slower than Netvibes and has a kind of bubbly, "cute" color scheme to it. It is also a flash based reader that goes for a newspaper feel, and has all the features that netvibes does.
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 * [|Netvibes]
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**Blog Resources**

 * [|RSS Digestion: Too Much to Read?], by Claudia Ceraso //(ELT Notes January 2007)//
 * [|RSS, Information and Education], by Michael Staton
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**Wikis Resources**

 * RSS - A beginner's tutorial for educators

**Podcasts Resources**

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**Books**

 * [|RSS for Educators] by John Hendron
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**Videos**

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**Email Lists**

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**Other Community Sites**

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