RSS in the Classroom
Three ways to use RSS fields in the ELA classroom:
1. Research projects where you would like students to be sharing and gaining information with others. You might give students an open range of topics, and then you as the teacher could add RSS feeds to your "aggregator" to help your students. In addition, your students could be using RSS feeds to gain new information every hour. This could be a great tool to have students bringing in new discussion information each class.
2. Each class could begin by students all sharing new information they received on their RSS feeds. (Of course somehow related to the Unit plan) Students might enjoy bringing in new information each day as opposed to being assigned a boring novel they may never read anyway.
3. Monitoring students blogging or wikis. An aggregator would allow the teacher to see what their students are posting at all times, without having to go to each different page. This would work much like the bloglines that we use to see who is posting new information for Eng 307. You could give students a deadline, and you would know if they did not meet it because it would not show as new information on bloglines.
Side Note:
I personally enjoy getting the NY Times feed. I find the news channels in the area tend not to be very informational when it comes to world news....Might be a great way to bring current events into the classroom...
posted by Lauren at 9:07 PM
1 Comments:
I also think that students bringing in new information every class via RSS would be very interesting - for both the students and the teacher!
Do you find that your NY Times feed gives you more information than you want/need? I think it would be interesting to keep up with world news through an RSS, but I hardly have enough time or energy to read articles that interest me here. Is there a way to filter out certain content?
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