Saturday, September 12, 2009

This is a great video for those who want to learn about RSS feeds. Yay!

http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM

    RSS Please begin with a definition as in RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content that allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites that interest you. Beth

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  2. Douglas GauldSeptember 21, 2009 at 7:04 PM

    Interesting. My textbook, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Tools for Classrooms, by Will Richardson defines RSS as "Real Simple Syndication" (p. 71). Wikipedia offers "RSS (most commonly translated as 'Really Simple Syndication' but sometimes 'Rich Site Summary' is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format" referencing Dan Libby of Netscape Communications.

    Your definition, Beth, is marvelously clear. I'd like to use it if I teach my students, citing you as my reference, of course.

    I was using them to download podcasts long before I knew what they were. The reason I liked this video is because I didn't really understand what RSS feeds were myself. These "...in Plain English" videos do a wonderful job of defining and describing through narrative (note to my AP Language students).

    REFERENCE
    Richardson, W. (2006). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

    RSS. (2009, September). Wikipedia. Retrieved September 21, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

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