Feeds and Aggregators ..... not Aggravators!

What do all those letters mean?!?

• RSS, RDF, XML, Atom ... what about the numbers?
• Feed and Aggregators .... Magazine Subscriptions and your mailbox
• Dean's analogy: The Party
• Bloglines
• My blogroll
• Finding feeds (newpapers, blogs and your browser -- you've got Firefox right?)

Using RSS for Critical Thinking in Education

• Read the world press to learn The Real Story.
• Start using Feed Windows with your classes and colleagues
• Step into the future where we have a Hitchhikr site for teaching and learning.
• ... and Oh, the Places You'll Go! when you learn about wikis ...

From Lee LeFever and the Common Craft Show

RSS Explained in Plain English in under four minutes!

More about RSS

• Dean's RSS talk (Dean is an educational technologist from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.)
• screencast tutorial on Bloglines
• Download An Educator's Guide to RSS (Thanks to Will Richardson, blogger extraordinaire -- he's from New Jersey.)
• Download 50+ RSS Ideas for Educators (Thanks to Quentin D'Souza, an educational technologist from Ontario.)
• Brian Lamb's very comprehensive Intro to RSS online workshop. (Brian is an educational technologist at UBC.)

Audio Files (Open links in a new window)