RSSBringing the World Wide Web to You

Brian GrenierTechnical Site Coordinator

El Paso ISD

brgrenie@episd.orghttp://bumpontheblog.etowns.net

Workshop Overview•What is RSS?•What to look for…•How can RSS be used in your classroom?•RSS feed aggregators•Establish Google accounts•Explore Google Reader•RSS and Social Bookmarking•Establish del.icio.us accounts•Explore del.icio.us

First, a few questions…

What are your personal and professional interests?

What are you passionate about? What do you care

about?

How do you currently learn and grow in those areas?

How do you find these things?

Do you visit particular websites that are updated

frequently?

What is RSS?

•Rich Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication

•Allows you to subscribe to webpages•STOP SURFING THE WEB•Content comes to you•XML makes subscribing to a page

possible•Saves time

RSS Feed Aggregators

•The tool that brings your feeds to you in one place.

•Creates a “personalized newspaper”

•Many to choose from•2 Steps

▫Sign up for a RSS aggregator account

▫Subscribe to webpages

What to Look For…

Google Reader

•Set up Google account•Adding subscriptions•Establishing folders•Item view•How to remove a feed•Goodies•How to share•Tags

www.google.com/reader

How Can RSS be Used in the Classroom?• Track current news feeds related to a particular

subject.• Subscribe to student generated blogs.• Subscribe to blog comments to easily follow

conversation.• Follow a particular search feed related to a particular

topic.• Subscribe to a news feed and use as a way to discuss

current events.• Compile a list of class generated bookmarks.• Subscribe to a podcast relevant to your curriculum.• Add a photo feed to your webpage

RSS and Social Bookmarking

•Store, classify, share, and search Internet bookmarks

•Access your bookmarks anywhere you have web access

•RSS allows people to subscribe to your bookmarks

del.icio.us