RSS is Changing The Web How Will It Change Our Classrooms

Slide 1: Quentin D’Souza Academic ICT TCDSB TeachingHacks.com RSS Is Changing the Web - How Will It Change Our Classrooms?

Slide 2: With all the information on the web how can we make sense of it all? again Do you visit the same web sites and again looking for new content; wouldn't it be nice to automate this task? Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to filter out what we want from what we don't want? Would you like to have access to new tools and resources without having to spend hours searching for them?

Slide 3: XML Really Simple Syndication What Is RSS? Rich Site Summary Resource Description Framework

Slide 4: February 3, 2006 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <link The Undiscovered Literacy rel="stylesheet" So I was reflecting on the different href="http://www.teachinghacks.com/wp- statistics that I have been reading about content/themes/semiologic-2-col/style.css" student blogging, social networking, type="text/css" /> <link rel="alternate" instant messaging and various other forms type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS feed" of online publishing. I challenge you to go href="http://www.teachinghacks.com/feed/" into your classroom and ask a few /> <link rel="pingback" questions: href="http://www.teachinghacks.com/xmlrpc. php" /> <link rel="EditURI" • Do you use instant messaging? How type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" Often? href="http://www.teachinghacks.com/xmlrpc. php?rsd" /> </head> <body class="wide • Have you used social networking web verdana cream custom"> <div id="wrapper"> Web 2.0 sites like Friendster, MySpaces etc.? What <div id="header"> <table class="canvas"> type of information do you post? <tr> <td id="tagline"> <h2>Teaching with Technology</h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td • How many of you blog? Comment on id="sitename"> <h1><a other friend’s blogs? href="http://www.teachinghacks.com">Teach ing Hacks.com</a></h1> </td> </tr> </table> • Do you participate in any online </div> <div id="navbar"> communities like gaming or fan sites? <table class="canvas"> <tr> <td id="header_nav"> <ul> <li><a If so many of our students are participating href="/">Home</a></li> <li>|</li> <li><a in online communication on a daily basis, href="/about/">About</a></li> <li>|</li> <li><a why have we not been able to harness their href="/inprint/">In Print</a></li> <li>| enthusiasm? As a larger educational </li> <li><a href="/speaker/">Speaker</a></li> community we don’t understand why <li>|</li> <li><a students have decided to form href="/project/">Projects</a></li> <li>|</li> communities that reach beyond the <li><a href="/resources/">Resources</a></li> confines of their physical realm. We might <li>|</li> <li><a tend towards blaming weak familial ties or href="/contact/">Contact</a></li> </ul> too much free time. Or perhaps we are not reaching students on a level where they are being engaged?

Slide 8: Bloglines

Slide 12: Export OPML

Slide 14: Del.icio.us

Slide 17: Photo Sharing • Tim Lauer – Administrator at Lewis Elementary School • Enhanced Images • Inspire Writing and Creativity

Slide 18: Professional Development • Track Your Favourite … CBC - Globe and Mail - Toronto Star – Rick Mercer • Audio PD EPN Web – Podcast Alley – Quirks & Quarks • Video PD TiltTV – Photoshop Guys – Teachers TV

Slide 19: Document Collaboration • track collaboration and team work to see if students are on task • identify the written portion of contributions by group members to the project or assignment

Slide 20: Writely

Slide 21: Merging and Filtering Feeds • Repurpose content • Merge feeds • Filter feeds for content

Slide 22: Merged and Filtered LOR Feeds Using Feedshake

Slide 23: Feed to Audio Conversion

Slide 24: Merged Classroom Blogs

Slide 25: Creating A Search Feed • conduct web searches and research while you sleep (MSN) • use multiple search engines to conduct searches will you sleep (Gada.be)

Slide 26: Create A TagCloud

Slide 27: Visit Me @ TeachingHacks.com Modified from Creative Commons Image By Karl Eschenback

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