1、RSS for Educators,Jennifer Carrier Dorman http:/ is RSS?,Depending on who you talk to, RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication,Web 1.0 Web 2.0,RSS Really Simple Syndication,http:/www.edutopia.org/tech-teacher-RSS,Ask an Expert . . .,Excerpts from Will Richardsons publication, RSS
2、: A Quick Start Guide for Educators http:/ Wills Blog http:/weblogg- Wills Book http:/ is RSS?,Blogs, podcasts, news sites, and an ever-growing number of other media site generate a behind-the-scenes code in a language similar to HTML called XML. This code, usually referred to as a “feed,“ makes it
3、possible for readers to “subscribe“ to the content that is created on a particular website so they no longer have to visit the site itself to get it.,RSS Really Simple Syndication,http:/www.edutopia.org/tech-teacher-RSS,RSS Really Simple Syndication,http:/www.edutopia.org/tech-teacher-RSS,RSS Syndic
4、ation,As is true with traditional syndication, the content comes to you instead of you going to get it, hence “Real Simple Syndication.”,Applications for RSS Feeds,An RSS aggregator checks the feeds you subscribe to and it collects all the new content from those sites you are subscribed to. Then, wh
5、en youre ready, you open up your aggregator to read the individual stories, file them for later use, click through to the site itself, or delete them if theyre not relevant. In other words, you check one site instead of dozens of individual websites,RSS Really Simple Syndication,http:/www.edutopia.o
6、rg/tech-teacher-RSS,RSS in Plain English,http:/ to RSS Feeds,Finding Feeds,Blogs, podcasts, news sites, and many other media services syndicate their content through RSS feeds,Options for Subscribing,Option 1- Manual Subscription Right-click on the RSS or Atom link/icon and select Copy Link Location
7、 Paste that feed URL into your RSS reader,Options for Subscribing,Option 2 Automatic Browser Subscription Firefox Internet Explorer 7,Automatic Subscribing in Firefox,Tools Options Click on the Feeds tab Select your preferred RSS reader,Automatic Subscribing in IE7,Click on the Feed iconClick subscr
8、ibe to this feedSelect the folder and click subscribe,Automatic Subscribing in IE7,Read your subscriptions through IE7,Options for Subscribing,Option 3: Automatic Feed Reader Subscriptions Many sites now offer one-click subscriptions targeted to popular feed readers Click on the icon for the reader
9、you use and the subscription feed will automatically be added to your reader,Options for Subscribing,RSS Aggregators,Feed Readers,Bloglines,Bloglines,Save Time, Read it Your Way View all your subscriptions by clicking on the My Feeds tab Modify display preferences in feed Options View articles by se
10、lecting from the links in your Feeds folder Modify individual subscription options using the Edit feature Choose a Notifier for Bloglines alerts View Bloglines on your mobile device Read Bloglines in your favorite language,http:/ interests you? Blogs, News, Podcasts and more Weather forecasts Packag
11、e tracking View the 200 Most Popular Feeds Track future web articles by creating a search subscription,Bloglines,Subscribe to it Subscribe with one click from your browser toolbar Subscribe from search results Look for RSS enabled sites with Subscribe with Bloglines or XML/RSS buttons If you dont se
12、e an RSS button, use the Add link and enter the URL and Bloglines will find all available feeds for you. Manage mailing list clutter by creating unique email addresses,Bloglines,Publish, Share & Save Publish your own blog Post a Subscribe with Bloglines button on your blog Share your blogroll Email
13、articles to any address using the Email This feature Save articles with the Keep New or Clip/Blog This features,Bloglines,My public Bloglines feeds are available at http:/ Reader,Google Reader,Stay up to date Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content. Share w
14、ith your friends Use Google Readers built-in public page to easily share interesting items with your friends and family. Use it anywhere, for free Google Reader is totally free and works in most modern browsers, without any software to install.,https:/ Feeds with Google Reader,Importing and Exportin
15、g,Added Functionality,Added Functionality,Added Functionality,Added Functionality,Google Reader,Take a tour of Google Reader at http:/ Create a personalized homepage with iGoogle http:/ Integrates with Google Reader Learn more about Google Resources for Educators at http:/ is a personalized page you
16、 can now modify everything: move modules, add new RSS/ATOM feeds, change the parameters for each module, etc. Your modifications are saved in real-time and youll find your page when you get back on N. If you want to be able to access your page from any computer, you can sign in with your email and a
17、 password.,http:/ can pull content from: RSS or web feeds Podcasts Calendars Widget and applications modules,http:/ is your personalized start page on the Internet. Your address book, local weather information, to-do-list, news, blogs and much more all on one page that you can access from anywhere.
18、You can also use Pageflakes to keep up with your favorite blogs and news feeds. “Flake“ is our word for those little modules which you can see on the screen.,http:/,Pageflakes in Action,Pageflakes in Action,Customizing Content,Click on the Flake button in the upper right,Customizing Layout,Click on
19、the Flake button in the upper right,Customizing Themes,Click on the Flake button in the upper right,Pagecasting with Pageflakes,“Pagecasting” means publishing your Pageflakes page for others to see. You can share your Pagecast with the world or with a private group. You can even let others edit and
20、contribute to your Pagecast!,http:/,Pagecasting,Click on the Flake button in the upper right Select Make Pagecast Designate sharing permissions,Pagecasting,Broadcast the URL address and invite others to collaborate to maintain dynamic page content Helpful hint: You can shorten your Pagecast URL with
21、 the following applications: http:/, http:/ http:/ Pagecast,http:/ Pagecasts,Users can: Follow the Pagecast by clicking “Watch this Pagecast” Copy the Pagecast into their account and modify the content for their purposes E-mail the Pagecast to others,Interesting Read,Visit http:/ to read a July 2007
22、 interview with Dan Cohen, the CEO of Pageflakes Our focus is on trying to do this for everybody and thats evidence in the fact that we dont even call them widgets, we dont talk about RSS, we talk about flakes. Flakes, that go on your page. A page of flakes. They are really lightweight applications
23、that go on a page.,Grazr,Grazr is a free and easy way to gather and organize information from all over the Web. Use our drag and drop editor to collect feeds and links to Web pages, and then share them with others on this site, or place them on your own pages with our free widget.,http:/ Reading Lis
24、ts with Grazr,Creating Widgets with Grazr,Grazr,Embedded Grazr feed reader,Grazr Widget,Reading feeds through embedded Grazr widgets,Using RSS in Education,Pedagogy and Research,Why use RSS in education?,RSS has transformed the way that content is distributed, accessed, and processed 21st century st
25、udents are no longer faced with the challenge of “finding” enough information rather, they are faced with an avalanche of information RSS is one way for students to locate information more efficiently Of course, they still need to be taught how to process, analyze, and evaluate,Why use RSS in educat
26、ion?,It is also a way to leverage the talent of millions of individuals to identify truly useful information in the tidal wave of data the internet has become. Mary Harrsch, “RSS: The Next Killer App for Education” http:/technologysource.org/article/rss/,Using RSS is Research-Based,Dr. Henry Jenkins
27、 Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT “Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century” Participatory culture and its implications for learning in the 21st century (RSS is all about participation, networking, and community) 21st century
28、 skills and literacies (applied skills students need to be school, work, and life ready),21st Century Participatory Culture,Relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement Strong support for creating and sharing ones creations with others Some type of informal mentorship whereby
29、what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices,Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century,21st Century Participatory Culture,Members believe that their contributions matter Members feel some degree of social connection with one anoth
30、er (at the least they care what other people think about what they have created),Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century,Implications,A growing body of scholarship suggests potential benefits of these forms of participatory culture, including: oppo
31、rtunities for peer-to-peer learning, a changed attitude toward intellectual property, the diversification of cultural expression, the development of skills valued in the modern workplace, and a more empowered conception of citizenship.,Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Edu
32、cation for the 21st Century,Implications,Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement. The new literacies almost all involve social skills developed through collaboration and networking. These skills build on the foundation of traditio
33、nal literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the classroom.,Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century,The New Literacies,Play the capacity to experiment with ones surroundings as a form of problem-solving Pe
34、rformance the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery Simulation the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes Appropriation the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content,Confronting the Challenges of a Parti
35、cipatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century,The New Literacies,Multitasking the ability to scan ones environment and shift focus as needed to salient details. Distributed Cognition the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities Collective Intelligence the ab
36、ility to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal Judgment the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources,Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century,The New Literacies,Transmedia Navig
37、ation the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities Networking the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information Negotiation the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and fol
38、lowing alternative norms.,Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century,21st Century Skills,National Educational Technology Standards for Students Communication and Collaboration Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collabo
39、ratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.,http:/ Century Skills,National Educational Technology Standard
40、s for Students Research and Information Fluency Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students: plan strategies to guide inquiry. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media. evaluate and select i
41、nformation sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks. process data and report results.,http:/ for Teaching and Learning,Practical Applications,Professional Learning Communities,Educators are professionals who, by nature, are always learning Through RSS feed readers and
42、 personalized home pages educators can create their own learning network and learn from other educators,Join My Learning Network,Subscribe to my Cliotech Blog http:/ Join my Wiki http:/ My Diigo Group Engaging Digital Natives http:/ My Del.icio.us Bookmarks http:/del.icio.us/cliotech My EdTech Blog
43、Pagecast http:/ My Google Reader Blogroll http:/ of Jan. 1, 2008, my learning network included individuals from over 80 countries,My Learning Network,Classroom Applications for RSS,Have students subscribe to each others blogs and/or the teachers blog Have students and parents subscribe to your blog,
44、 podcast, or wiki feed to keep abreast of what is going on in class,Classroom Applications for RSS,RSS Feeds for News, Blog, and Website Searches Create a feed for whats in the daily news about a particular topic, you can make a syndicated feed of search results of Google News Aggregate targeted new
45、s feeds with a shared (published) feed reader (Pageflakes, Grazr, etc.) This basically creates a constantly updating targeted “current events” text for students,Targeted News Feeds,Classroom Applications for RSS,RSS Feeds for Bookmarks Teachers can create a social bookmarking account and publish the
46、 list for their students (instant hotlists) Teachers can create a class account and all students can add to the content Students can create accounts to collaborate with group members and share resources more effectively All the feeds can be aggregated with the same feed readers used for blogs, podcasts, news, and other media sites,Classroom Applications for RSS,RSS Feeds for Bookmarks The following social bookmarking applications allow for publishing Internet bookmarks through RSS feeds: http:/ http:/del.icio.us/ http:/ http:/ Bookmarking in Plain English,http:/
