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Information Literacy and RSS.
RSS in the Classroom
"Ryan raises some really interesting ideas about the uses of RSS and trackback and how they might work in the classroom. The ultimate here from a teaching standpoint would obviously be an aggregated page of student work that was somehow sortable by either student or assignment or, preferably, both. Even more, it would be great to be able to comment back to student sites via the aggregator (which I think is something that Radio can do but not Manila(?)).
Even more, however, is the use of the aggregator by students to follow each other's work. I alluded to this before when I was thinking about putting my students into smaller working groups, a plan I'm going to implement this week. The desired effect is to get students to learn from the process of others by tuning in more closely, and to give feedback in the collaborative group style. Not that they can't just click through to the three or four sites in their group, but I'd like them to see how easy this new concept of information gathering is. I see them subscribed to the class homepage, 3/4 feeds of their workgroup, the NY Times and BBC newsfeeds, and a couple of feeds of sites that correspond to their beats. First stop every day will be the aggregator...." [weblogged News]
It's great to see the light bulbs going on all over the place, especially in the sphere of education. Wouldn't it be great if blogging and RSS became one piece of an evolving foundation (predicated on libraries) that teaches kids true information literacy? [ The Shifted Librarian]
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Utah State Library Is Building an "RSS Turnkey System!".
Utah eDG Meeting on RSS News Feeds
"Ray Matthews from the Utah State Library Division will lead a discussion and show 'n' tell on RSS issues and implementations for State Government. Kerry Huntington, Steve Stalter, and others from the ITS development team will demo a wizard-driven RSS turnkey system under development that agencies will be able to use for creating, finding, and consuming news feeds. All interested Utah state and local government agencies are welcome to attend this open meeting. If you cannot come, please see the eDG Meeting site for information on how to participate in the live Web Cast or view the Powerpoint presentation. The meeting will take place in State Office Building Rm. B110." [RSS in Government]
Ray alluded to the turnkey system the Utah State Library has been developing, but we didn't have much of a chance to discuss it. I can't wait to hear more about this!
In other RSS news, Michael Fagan has put together an Explanation of RSS, How You Can Use It, and Finding RSS Feeds. Very informative with lots of resources listed.
"This page is about using RSS, from a non-technical standpoint..... Before you go any further, realize this: RSS is really simple. Just because it is an acronym doesnít mean that itís complicated. Donít get scared away, thereís really nothing to it.....
For anyone that reads a half dozen or more pages that have RSS feeds, an aggregator is a necessity. RSS aggregators are set up to periodically check for new items in the feeds you are subscibed to, often an hour or half hour. In other words, the news comes to you, rather than you having to go to the news. This saves a tremendous ammount of time. Or conversely, you can read many more feeds in the same ammont of time. Many people read several hundred feeds. That just wouldnít be feasable without an RSS aggregator. Additionally, you avoid all the non-new information on a web page, including the ads, menus, etc." [The Shifted Librarian]
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