RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and allows you to monitor other Blogs or Websites that have an "RSS Feed". You will be notified on any updates on blogs you are watching. Why is this useful? Consider monitoring the blogs of 26 students! How do you keep up with each new addition? It is onerous and very difficult to click your way through this many blogs. The RSS reader will make the task much easier. You simply visit the blogs that have an update. (Moodle)
I never knew what RSS actually stood for and what it did. RSS or Really Simple Syndication is a great way to keep up to date with sites that have an “RSS Feed”. We created a 'Google Reader' account in class which allowed us to follow new sites and other blogs without acutally having to chase each site individually. “Google Reader is a Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline” (Wikipedia. 2010). My sister-in-law said that an RSS is like the Facebook news feed, where it shows all of the updates your friends make, is the same as Google Reader showing all of the updates of your favourite sites.
Using an RSS in the classroom would make life a lot easier for teachers to keep track of student progress and assignments to be handed in. Also for students to see what activities their fellow peers had been up to. RSS is time-saving but also engaging as students can collaborate with eachother more easily. (Kearsley & Shneiderman, 1999)
Cheers,
Michelle
Kearsley, G., Shneiderman, B. (1999). Engagement Theory: A framework for technology-based teaching and learning. Retrieved August 5 2010 from http://home.sprynet.com/~gkearsley/engage.htm.
Wikipedia. (2010). Google Reader. Retrieved August 15th, 2009, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Reader
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