This presentation explores the role of RSS in education, what RSS is and where it could go.

1. RSS: The New
Information Pipeline
David
Jakes

3. “What happens when the information
finds you?”
Will Richardson

4. “And we tend to look at knowledge
as hard or unchanging…but these
days, knowledge is soft. It’s
constantly changing.”
Will Richardson

5. Everyone can participate,
everyone can contribute….

7. 27.2 million exist
1 created each second
60X bigger than 3 years ago
1.2 million additions per day
81 million posts since Jan 05

8. Blogs, Wikis,
Podcasts, Flickr,
del.icio.us,
Websites, ?
RSS
Feed
Aggregator

9. What kinds of resources produce RSS
feeds?
Blogs
Wikis
Social
Bookmarking
Podcasts
Flickr
Web 1.0
Resources

10. RSS connects information and
people together…in a
personally defined network.

11. Where people subscribe to
people…
Cisco Systems

12. I’ve learned more in the past
two years…
Informal learning

15. My Aggregator of choice…Bloglines
…or Google Reader

16. Google Reader

17. PageFlakes

18. Where to find feeds:
My public feeds:
www.bloglines.com/public/djakes

19. Where to find feeds: blogs
Technorati
Google Blog Search
Blogrolls (Mark Ahlness)

20. Where to find feeds: social
bookmarking
del.icio.us
Furl.net

21. Students
How will we use
RSS with
students?

22. Students
Could we have
students build
personal learning
environments?

23. What does that
look like?
Blogs
Del.icio.us/Furl
Wiki pages
Web pages

25. Trick #1: Creating feeds
from “Web 1.0 Web pages
using page2rss.com

26. Trick #2: Creating feeds of
searches using GoogleAlert

27. Where is this all going?

28. Where is this all going?

29. “…And we’re more powerful
together than we could ever be
apart…welcome to the human
network…
Cisco Systems