Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds can be an effective teaching tool if used properly. With RSS feeds you can stream information on your website and have students sign up and receive them in their browser. Listed below are some ways RSS feeds are currently being used for education.
Updates: Much like Twitter RSS can help teachers keep students updated on when projects are due or let them know of information that might help them with their assignments can use feeds. Students can use it for their group projects to let their group members know when they’ve completed a portion of the project or post information that might be helpful.
School News: The school can have a general RSS feed about upcoming events or important information that needs to reach their students. This could be any type of information such as special guest speakers that will be coming to the school or school closings due to weather.
Search Feeds and Monitoring: With an RSS feed a student can create a search feed and then monitor that feed for new information. For example, if a student was doing a research paper on the Iraq war then they could create a search feed to search for information on the war and monitor it for any new information that happens.
There are other ways that an RSS feed can be used in an education setting, though not directly related to the classroom.
Scholarships: Students can subscribe to an RSS feed about scholarship and grant information to help them receive funding to get through college.
Job Searching: Students can also find RSS feeds about job related to their current field of study.
Listed below are several websites about RSS feeds and their uses in education.
This website lists many different ways in which an RSS feed can be used in an education settings. It has examples of classroom RSS feeds and non-classroom feeds.
Educational Uses For RSS Feeds
This website gives a very brief description of what an RSS feed is. It also covers how an RSS feed can be used on collaborative projects and covers administrative uses of an RSS feed for a school.
This article discusses how an RSS feed can be tied into other applications such as Moodle or Netvibes to create a very specific RSS search feed.
RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators
This PDF file covers information such as what an RSS feed, how to set one up, how to find and add new feeds, and various ways to use it in the classroom. Also contains many useful resources for RSS feeds directly related to educators.
Newspapers Offer Education RSS Feeds
This website offers many links to RSS feeds that have been sponsored by newspapers from around the United States. While they aren’t necessarily RSS feeds being used in a teacher/student setting they do offer a wealth of information to educators on current events in education.
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