What+Is+RSS

=What's RSS and Why Should I Care?= Here are some notes and links from our session on RSS. Feel free to add more links and information as you use RSS.

RSS News Aggregators
[|Bloglines] (Free on-line news reader) [|Google Reader] [|My Yahoo] [|Netvibes] (Free-looks like a regular webpage.) [|Newsgator] (online is free--there is a version for Windows PCs that costs [|Newsnetwire] (Mac only--the lite version is free) [|Vienna] (Mac only--Open Source)

Social Bookmarking Sites
We didn't get to this but it has a lot of potential for classroom use. [|Del.icio.us] is a site where you can set up bookmarks. Your bookmark list can have an RSS feed to which students can subsribe. The idea being that if you see a site that you'd like your students to visit, just bookmark it and they will be alerted to the new site in their news aggregators.

Other Resources
//[|RSS: A Quick Start For Educators]// is a pdf written by [|Will Richarson]. Will is an avid blogger and writer about educational technology. This pdf gives a good overview of RSS and several uses specific to teaching.