Using RSS Feeds in the Classroom
If you use blogs with your students, the uses of RSS will make your life much easier. Instead of
checking out all 15-20 or even more individual student blogs every day, you collect their work
in your aggregator using their RSS feeds. That way, you can scan through all of the class content
in one place and read a particular post to comment on it.
RSS feeds are particularly helpful in aiding research projects. Students can create accounts in an
aggregator to localize feeds for information about a topic. A student who is doing a project on
global warming could create an RSS feed that would bring any news about global warming to the
aggregator as soon as it was published. Or you can stay up-to-date on blogs that focus on
teaching your subject or teaching with technology . You--or your students--could find blogs that
chronicle first-person accounts of life in an area in the news--Israel, Darfur, South Africa, Iraq,
etc. RSS feeds allow you to mine this information for “educational nuggets” to share with your
classes.
Resources
A Student-created Guide to RSS
RSS Ideas for Educators
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