personal learning networks
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Presentation about RSS Feeds in education for Staff Development. Presented to the Wando High School faculty in Mt. Pleasant, SC.TRANSCRIPT
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RSS FeedsPresented By:
Larry Crosswell
Wando High School
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The Big Picture
• You want all the news about Wando High School
• How can you get it?
• Look in the Charleston Paper and the Moultrie News and
the Daniel Island News and WCIV and WCBD and
WCSC….
OR
• Do a Google News search on “Wando High School” every
time you want to check for articles and stories
OR
• Subscribe to an RSS feed through Google News and let
your computer check all the news sources and bring the
news to you
Which option sounds easiest?
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What is RSS?
• Really Simple Syndication
• Small text file that summarizes a webpage
or article
• Revised every time a webpage is updated
• Since it is text, it requires very little
bandwidth
• Written in XML
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We must revisit how we receive
information
Picture from www.deskshare.com
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Why RSS is great for you
• Free subscriptions
• No disclosure of identity
• Cancel at any time
• Information finds you
• Stay on top of current educational ideas
• Quickly scan multiple content streams and
click on items of interest saving time
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Things you can do with RSS• News syndication
• Search for information via RSS
• Aggregate your feeds
• Display news on your website
• Display news on your mobile device
• Collect all your email in RSS
• Get RSS content through your email
• Track Fedex packages
• discount air fares
• Bargains at Ebay
• Get stock updates
• Get the weather reports
• What people are saying about you, your company, your products
• Music, radio shows, TV clips
• Stay updated on someone's schedule
• Get cinema schedule updates
• Read your favorite comics
• What other people are surfing
• Automatically backup your weblog posts
• Get software updates
• Get the latest bittorrent files and p***
• Shopping deals at Amazon.com and others
• What your friends and family would like for Christmas
• Be notified of traffic conditions
• Be notified of updates in police and fire department logs
• Web metrics
• Virus and security alerts
• Events and happenings in your city
• Gaming statistics
• Search for jobs
• Easing government bureaucracy
• Create your own news aggregator page
• Keep track of your notes
• Find recent photos taken near you
• Build maps
• Make Tag Clouds
• All those sites without RSS
• Become a comment blogger
• Patent Searching
• Keep your acquaintances updated with your latest contact details
• Ditch Your Girlfriend
• Print Your Feeds
http://www.timyang.com/wiki/doku.php?id=lists:thingsyoucandowithrss
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How does it work?
• First pick an RSS Aggregator
• Browser Based - Mozilla
• Desktop Based – News Gator
• Internet Based –
https://www.google.com/reader/
• Now find information to subscribe to!
• Blogs, news, searches, podcasts, image
pages, social bookmarks
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How do I set up for RSS?
I highly recommend Google Reader
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Let’s get an account
• Go to https://reader.google.com
• Click on “Create an Account”
• Fill out all information
• Submit
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Welcome to Google Reader
Click here to search
for a feed
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Let’s subscribe!
Click here to
add the feed
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Now you are subscribed
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How do I subscribe?
• Look for the RSS icons
• Click on the icon
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What does all this look like?HINT: RSS links are often found at the bottom of a page
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What does all this look like?
Click here
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After you click on the RSS icon
Click here
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Let’s Organize
Click here
• Folders are the key
• Group by topic
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Folder Party!
Click here to
make a new folder
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Example: Get specific news
• Step 1 – Go to http://news.google.com
• Step 2 – Type in your search in the search
box and click search
• Step 3 – Look on the left column for the
RSS link and click it
• Step 4 – Select “Add to Google Reader”
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Google News for WHS
Click RSS and add it to
your Google Reader
Type in your search
(should have been done
prior to this page)
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The future here at Wando
• Online discussion groups
• Shared pages via departments
• Shared pages via curriculum teams
• Shared pages via the school
• How do you do this?
• Subscribe to my blog and I will show
you over the next few weeks
• http://lcrosswell.edublogs.org/
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Questions and/or comments