Another interesting thing that came up in Alan’s sessions yesterday was the use of RSS feeds. For those that don’t know what they are, you can read what Mark wrote about this last year. RSS allows you to subscribe to your favorite news sites, blogs, podcasts - in other words, any update will come to you, rather than you having to go to these sources and check if there are updates.
Archive for RSS
Social bookmarking - ever heard of it? It’s yet another example of a powerful new way of collaborating. In the immortal words of Herry Monster, two heads are better than one. Here’s why and how…
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This is from the faculty focus group session I did this morning. I shamelessly borrowed the idea from Alan November, whom I heard present at a recent conference in Shanghai. It’s deceptively simple, yet very powerful…
Over the last year, many teachers have voiced an interest in podcasting as a way to diversify students’ ways to demonstrate learning and understanding, but for a few different reasons, few ever seem to get round to actually implementing it in the classroom. Read the rest of this entry »
You may have noticed this symbol appearing on webpages. This symbol represents RSS (Real Simple Syndication). Many news sites, blogs, and pages that are updated regularly, offer RSS feeds.
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Over the last week, a number of teachers around the schools have been visited by an IT teacher offering to explain RSS in twenty words or less and to hook them up with a personalized iGoogle page. Read the rest of this entry »
