Using cutting edge web 2.0 technology such as blogging, social bookmarking, and podcasting would seem like on overwhelming task to manage in a classroom, if it wasn’t for RSS feeds providing the network for staying updated and connected with chosen places. RSS Feeds are the best way to stay up to date with the sources that you enjoy in the cyber jungle of information. Educators who use RSS feeds in their classrooms can subscribe to feeds and not have to worry about going back to the site for updates. RSS feeds can help manage class blogs, school calendars and sports schedules, podcasts lectures, monitor research, study guides, and scholarship information.
Current Educational Use of Feeds
http://www.feedforall.com/academia-and-rss.htm
This site provides fifteen ways that educators and institutions are using RSS feeds into their environment. Outside of the usual ways such as podcast lectures and research monitoring, the author includes other practical means such as RSS feeds for staying abreast of important events from a calendar.
This article explains how to incorporate many different web 2.0 technologies along with RSS feeds. The author’s primary focus is using screen casts, but can be adapted to fit the needs of the teacher. The author uses RSS feeds to gather tutorials for his students to follow at their own pace and time. This is a very important tool in helping students and teachers to become more comfortable with all of the “user friendly” applications out there.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/feeds/index.html
RSS feeds for teachers
http://carlanderson.blogspot.com/2007/12/rss-feeds-for-teachers.html
Techno Constructivist
Technology and Curriculum specialist, Carl Anderson created a Blogline account for every teacher in his district and united them all with pre-loaded RSS feeds. His blog gives more resources of RSS feeds categorized.
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