RSS Feeds are a completely new concept to me (like almost everything I've learned about over the past few weeks). I think that they hold a lot of opportunity to help faculty stay connected and to become "learned" not only in their respective discipline, but others as well.
I was impressed that RSS Feeds could be shared between collegues through Twitter. "Hey guys, check out this link/feed" From there, you just add it to your aggregator and you have the opportunity to be regulary updated (i.e. a journal or magazine).
I think that the Aggregator is an amazing technology because it helps you track your favourite information. It really does help to save time, also if you have the ability to go into it and select a link of interest, and then pass it along to a collegue without them having to wait "forever" - it saves a lot of time.
RSS Feeds are a great idea and I think that instructors/learners alike should be encouraged to subscribe to, and follow, several feeds prevelant to their course content. It will help them stay current with the information they are learning and this knowledge will add to the quality of discussion within the classroom.
Overall, I can see how RSS Feeds are considered a powerful tool to use in the classroom, they truly are another method of enhancing the resources used to expose a learner to a subject.
As for my own personal experience, I am enjoying the Aggregator (I'm using Google Reader and have found it fairly straight forward) ... I'm also feeling slightly... sophisticated ; )
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I agree Shantel that Google Reader has been one of the more straight forward tools I've learned about so far in the course and probably the one I'll keep using after.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I think I key factor to its success is the relevance of the the sites/blogs selected. It can take quite a bit of time to find sites with information that is relevant and updated regularly.
On a side note - I love how it keeps me up to date about Cute Overload and Disney World :)