The RSS Revolution: Using Blogs and Podcasts to Distribute Learning Centent

Slide 1: The RSS Revolution: Using Blogs & Podcasts to Distribute Learning Content Jason Rhode Assistant Director, Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center Northern Illinois University

Slide 2: In This Presentation Topics to be covered The “whats” & Blogs & podcasts: Tools Applications with “whys” of RSS for content delivery Blackboard 2

Slide 3: Le arning in the 21st Ce ntury

Slide 4: “Traditional” e-Learning Content placed in LMS (Blackboard) Students must revisit course site to access content No automated notification of new content Instructor has primary control of content creation & delivery 4

Slide 5: Modes of Interaction in Distance Ed. (Anderson, 2003) 5

Slide 6: (Downes, 2006) 6

Slide 7: Personal Learning Environments (PLE) Students contribute to content creation & distribution Automated delivery of new content to students Instructor has primary control of content creation & delivery 7

Slide 8: Lifelong Learning 8

Slide 9: Informal Learning 9

Slide 10: Different Styles of Learning 10 10

Slide 11: Ubiquitous Connectivity 11 11

Slide 12: (Siemens, 2006)

Slide 13: (Siemens, 2006)

Slide 14: (Tosh, 2003)

Slide 15: Why RSS?

Slide 16: Information Overload 16 16

Slide 17: Syndication Aggregation 17

Slide 18: What is RSS?

Slide 19: RSS Really Simple Syndication Format for syndicating content • from the Internet Choose what information to • receive Get new content when it • becomes available Can be used to distribute files • 19

Slide 20: RSS • XML file format Universally readable by feed readers and – podcatching software RSS XML vs. Either term/button can refer to the – existence of a feed (RSS = process; XML = file format) 20

Slide 21: RSS 21

Slide 22: What does XML look like? • <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> • <?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?> • <feed xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#" version="0.3" xml:lang="en-US"> • <link href="https://www.blogger.com/atom/21171622" rel="service.post" title="FacDev Training Blog" type="application/atom+xml"/> • <link href="https://www.blogger.com/atom/21171622" rel="service.feed" title="FacDev Training Blog" type="application/atom+xml"/> • <title mode="escaped" type="text/html">FacDev Training Blog</title> • <tagline mode="escaped" type="text/html"/> • <link href="http://facdevblog.blogspot.com" rel="alternate" title="FacDev Training Blog" type="text/html"/> • <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21171622</id> • <modified>2006-08-01T18:21:09Z</modified> • <generator url="http://www.blogger.com/" version="6.72">Blogger</generator> • <info mode="xml" type="text/html"> • <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This is an Atom formatted XML site feed. It is intended to be viewed in a Newsreader or syndicated to another site. Please visit the <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=697">Blogger Help</a> for more info.</div> • </info> • <convertLineBreaks xmlns="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">true</convertLineBreaks> • <entry xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#"> • <link href="https://www.blogger.com/atom/21171622/115445327151970183" rel="service.edit" title="Creating and Using Blogs" type="application/atom+xml"/> • <author>

Slide 23: How does a Blog work with RSS?

Slide 24: What is a Blog? weB log Title Posting 5 Menu to Previous Postings or Other Posting 4 Websites Posting 3 XML Posting 2 Posting 1 24

Slide 25: Traditional “Pulling” of Content from the WWW

Slide 26: “Traditional” Way of Reading a Blog Blog Posting 1 Blog Posting 2 Blog Posting 3

Slide 27: Pushing Content via a Blog, RSS & Aggregator Blog Posting 3 Blog Posting 1 Blog Posting 2 XML Notice of new User-determined items available Manual or frequency automated download of Read new items content soon after being posted

Slide 28: Sample Blogs

Slide 29: Sample Blogs HSTU 5510 : Social Software Affordance CMU 224 : Advanced Web Communications Weblogs in Higher Education HigherEdBlogCon 29

Slide 30: Blog Services

Slide 31: Blog Services 31

Slide 32: Blog Services 32

Slide 33: Aggregators

Slide 34: Aggregators iTunes 34

Slide 35: Po dcasts & RSS

Slide 36: What is a Podcast? Podcasting? A combination of the words • iPod and broadcasting A way for people to be able • to selectively subscribe to audio or video content over the Internet This content can then be • automatically added to a mobile device, like iPod 36

Slide 37: Podcast = Pushing Content via RSS & Podcatching Software XML User-determined manual or frequency automated download

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