How to Sign Up:
The sign up processs is really simple.
Step 1: Choose a website that you want to use (My favorites: Pageflakes, Scribd, and Google)
Step 2: Choose a user name - Try to choose a name that is simple to remember and unique. If you find that the name is used by another person add your birthday to the end of the name. That way it will be unique and you will remember it easily.
Step 3: Choose a password that is easy to remember. Some website will email you a password. However, once you login it is easy to change it to something that is familiar to you.
Step 4: Follow the step by step process for signing up on the website. Many "sign-ups" are similar.
Step 5: Check to see if your login is correct.
Step 6: Have Fun!!
P.S. If you don't want to go through this process every time you login try "Open Id". It allows you to use the same password and login name for several websites. Check out the following link for a directory of websites: Open Id Websites
Really Short Syndication
Really Short Syndication or "RSS" is a term that refers to an idea of gathering feeds from all of your favorite websites and bringing them to one "reader" or "agregator" for you to read. It makes it easier than visiting all of the websites individually. By using RSS you can get updates from the website and only click on the links of the stories that you want to read. This lesson will focus on showing you how to set up a "reader" and then how to "subscribe" to some of your favorite websites. This lesson also focuses on how to create a reader that can be viewed by your students for research or class news by using a website called "Pageflakes.com"
Assignment:
1. Watch "RSS in Plain English" Video by Common Craft
2. Read the Blog - Back in Skinny Jeans "How to Explain RSS the Oprah Way"
3. Set up a "reader". Google Reader or Pageflakes
4. Post a blog entry on the class blog answering the questions: "What is RSS? How would you use it in your class?"
5. If you are still confused about the process check out the following set of directions:
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RSS just means really simple syndication. Its a great way to make the web smaller, meaning that you only need to see what you ask to see. I've been doing fun things, shying away from the academic side; however, in terms of school, I can see how this would be great, particularly with a website like pageflakes, where the students are visiting everyday anyways (hopefully) and that way you can use the RSS to feed facts/articles relevant to what the students are learning. I guess I would just continue to use it in the way you are, unless we could do something that would enable the students to have their own personal RSS feeds, where they could be getting information/articles sent to them that they may be interested in to use for school. Acutally, that would be great to do!
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ReplyDeleteRSS stands for really simple syndication. This means that instead of visiting many different websites a person can subscribe to websites they enjoy by using the RSS feed. All of the headlines from the websites you subscribe to will go to one place thus, allowing a person to get information from their favorite sites in one spot. In order to do this a person will need to set up a reader. Once the reader is setup a person simply needs to subscribe to the websites of their choice by selecting the RSS feed to be sent to their reader. By doing this a person will not need to check all of their favorite websites but instead, visit their reader and look at the headlines sent from the RSS feeds. This will save time and allow a person to read the headlines they choose from many websites in one convenient location.
ReplyDeleteI could use RSS in my classroom by exploring some educational websites that may provide me with ideas or information to use in my classroom. Since I teach first grade I believe I would use RSS as a means to gather information to use within my classroom. The students would not be using RSS themselves due to their young age and emergent literacy skills. However, my students would benefit from RSS because I would be able to simply and quickly keep up with headlines from various websites that may provide me with research, lesson plan ideas or information that could be used during various lessons. I am looking forward to learning about new websites and being able to access them in a quick and simple way.
RSS is a simple way to gather information or news from websites I am interested in reading, all in one place. The information comes to me. I am not yet sure how I would apply this to my classroom as I do not yet have a pool of website and information that would be useful to my students. I certainly have sites that I will use professionally at this point but no learning tools yet. I would like to find some sites that would be appropriate.
ReplyDeleteRSS means “Really Simple Syndication”. In the computer world, it means to go online and quickly retrieve the latest story headlines from all your favorite websites and blogs from one place. You can subscribe to these sites (usually for free) and only receive the important and current information or news. It is used to save time rather than search the web for hours.
ReplyDeleteIn first grade, this would be helpful to me when setting up specific lessons and looking for “fun facts” to engage the students. I am very new to the world of “blogging”, so I am looking forward to not being “afraid” to try out all of this. I was able to set up my “reader” account, so now I just need to find sites that are interesting to me and that will be beneficial to me as well as my students. I’m again, looking forward to becoming more familiar with using the technology that is right at my fingertips!
RSS stands for really simple syndication, or as Oprah would say "Ready for Some Stories". It is a way for you to get all the stories that you want in one easy place, which according to the Common Craft "guy" saves you valuable time. I can see how this would save a lot of time because rather than checking many web sites, they all come to you. Honestly, I still don't spend a lot of time getting news information on the web, but I do look on the web for things that I can use in my classroom. For example, I frequently go to Billerica Reads.org to find new information there. That web site is one that I would love to have updates from regularly. Unfortunately, that site doesn't have a feed (I'll have to mention that to Mark sometime), so now the trick is to find sites that will help me with subjects that are important to third grade. That seems to be more of a challenge. Anyone have any ideas on where to get information that is specific to a particular grade? I was, however, proud that I was actually able to help my husband add an RSS feed to his home page. Now, the search begins for good third grade web sites.
ReplyDeleteRSS stands for really simple sydincation, it is a simple way to get information sent directly to you instead of surfing all the different web pages and waiting for each individual page to load. It would benefit the classroom by saving time and making it a little easier to supervise what pages the students are accessing.
ReplyDeleteRSS is a way to save time and receive news that you are interested in. The acronym stands for really simple syndication or ready for some stories, according to Oprah. I like the idea of thinking of RSS as "live bookmarks" that you simple go to for information pertinent to you. I have to agree that web surfing, site to site, is time consuming.
ReplyDeleteAs far as putting RSS to use in the classroom, I am not entirely sure. My initial thoughts were to set it up as an at-home study tool for the students to access with the help of a parent. For example, I teach 4th grade and in social studies we are studying immigration. I could create "live bookmarks" of a few sites that the students could access for more information/study guides. I use the web quite a bit in my planning and am slowly starting to use it as tool to share information with students during a lesson. Sites I've used clips from are scholastic.com or discoveryvideo.com, but other than that I do not incorporate the internet into my lessons as much as I would like. Not to mention with two projectors (for our building) and limited internet access its not always the easiest. As others have mentioned, I would be very interested in sharing some useful websites or seeing an example of how RSS can be used in an upper elementary classroom.
RSS stands for Read Some Stories. This was the Oprah definition and the one that makes sense to me. RSS would be a quicker way to get headlines from sites that are of interest to you.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of using this in my classroom, I am not sure how that would work. As of now, I am not too sure of web sites that I would use that often that I would need an RSS feed. This seems great for news and personal interests but I do not know how it will help my teaching. I teach third grade and the students in my class do not use the internet that often. This could be a way to get then to use the internet but I would need more information on child friendly web sites. I do see how this would be a great tool for higher level learners.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Basically it just simplifies your life when using the web. It allows you to visit all your favorite websites without wasting anytime and it posts information on your reader page saving you time looking everything up. This isn't something that would be useful for my students, but it would be helpful in my personal life.
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