Friday, November 13, 2009

BP13_2009113_RSS_Feed

RSS feeds could be applicable in my personal and professional life by organizing my favorite informational sites at a glance. “The aggregator provides a consolidated view of the content in a single browser display or desktop application. Such aggregators or applications are also referred to as RSS readers, feed readers, feed aggregators or news readers” (http://sih.sagepub.com/rss/). I would customize my personal RSS feed for quotes of the day, top news features, recipes, health articles, and national weather reports. For my professional RSS feed, I would personalize it by setting up SAT Questions of the Day, my literature blog, Edutopia, local news pieces, photography, and No Fear Shakespeare.com. This would save me a lot of time in searching for my usually used websites, Web 2.0 tools, and e-mail subscriptions. Colleague Kiley Craft (personal communication, October 15, 2009) commented, “RSS Feeds save the user time by checking for updates and gathering them into one place.” I would like to see my high school create an RSS feed that parents, teachers, and students could subscribe to for updates about the campus, school closings, test dates, athletic events, dances, award ceremonies, social events, rallies, tutorials, etc.

As an example for my administration, I could set up a blog that is capable of RSS feeds, displaying lesson plans, PowerPoints, my classroom agenda, standards, and more (up until this year we had Edline, but we have a different database that doesn’t utilize this tool; I know our parents, students, and teachers miss the ability to communicate and post their assignments online). I definitely see a future for RSS feeds in managing my educational and personal goals.

SAGE Publications. (2009) RSS feeds. Retrieved from http://sih.sagepub.com/rss/

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  1. DedraNovember 14, 2009 at 3:44 PM

    Lorri,

    I am glad to see that you have mastered such a task as RSS feeds! I need to take things apart and in steps in order to gain understanding before I can apply it. This is because I am such a visual and kinestetic learner, even though I can understand and digest information quickly, things like RSS feeds that are non-tangible take more time for me because I function like a second language learner- I have to take in the info, convert it to my"language" understand it, then convert it back to the original language to give a response or reply. I will have to play with this a lot more in order to get comfortable with the workings. I am sure after the 'conversion' takes place in my head, I will be able to move along and implement some of the fantastic ideas you are suggesting for your school (blog with RSS feeds that allow for all the other components to be embedded).

    I will keep posted to learn from you how to do all this.
    Thanks for the share!

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