RSS (Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) allows information to come to you. Internet users control what they receive and view by subscriptions. A program known as an aggregator collects new information posted on the internet and the user can access this information (all new information in their aggregator) from one page. As your interests change, so can your bookmarks and RSS feeds. There are numerous ways RSS can be used in the classroom; subscribe to student blogs, subscribe to social bookmarks, and feeding content to HTML pages.
Subscribe to student blogs by using a feed aggregator. Bloglines and Bloglines Notifyer enable one to track blog subscriptions. An icon pops up on the computer when students post new content. Most search engines have the ability to share content through RSS subscriptions.
Subscribe to social bookmarks like Delicious. Delicious allows you to keep all of your favorite Internet sites online and it supports multiple tags. By organizing your tags and creating a class tag, allows students to access all class related information on one site. Social bookmarking is a great collaborative tool.
Feeding content to HTML pages; you can find any feed online and create a JavaScript that you can place on a Web page or on your LMS. This script pulls the dynamic content into the course and you don’t need a code to access the information. You can build custom feeds using a tool called Feed2JS.
Question 1: What is RSS? RSS is two-fold; feeds and aggregators. Each feed is defined with channel tags, which contains specific information that defines individual items. Aggregators read these special tags, track each subscribed page, and notify you when new items are added.
Question #2: What is LMS? Learning Management System (i.e. website)
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