RSS FeedsPresented By:

Larry Crosswell

Wando High School

The Big Picture

• You want all the news about Wando High School

• How can you get it?

• Look in the Charleston Paper and the Moultrie News and

the Daniel Island News and WCIV and WCBD and

WCSC….

OR

• Do a Google News search on “Wando High School” every

time you want to check for articles and stories

OR

• Subscribe to an RSS feed through Google News and let

your computer check all the news sources and bring the

news to you

Which option sounds easiest?

What is RSS?

• Really Simple Syndication

• Small text file that summarizes a webpage

or article

• Revised every time a webpage is updated

• Since it is text, it requires very little

bandwidth

• Written in XML

We must revisit how we receive

information

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Why RSS is great for you

• Free subscriptions

• No disclosure of identity

• Cancel at any time

• Information finds you

• Stay on top of current educational ideas

• Quickly scan multiple content streams and

click on items of interest saving time

Things you can do with RSS• News syndication

• Search for information via RSS

• Aggregate your feeds

• Display news on your website

• Display news on your mobile device

• Collect all your email in RSS

• Get RSS content through your email

• Track Fedex packages

• discount air fares

• Bargains at Ebay

• Get stock updates

• Get the weather reports

• What people are saying about you, your company, your products

• Music, radio shows, TV clips

• Stay updated on someone's schedule

• Get cinema schedule updates

• Read your favorite comics

• What other people are surfing

• Automatically backup your weblog posts

• Get software updates

• Get the latest bittorrent files and p***

• Shopping deals at Amazon.com and others

• What your friends and family would like for Christmas

• Be notified of traffic conditions

• Be notified of updates in police and fire department logs

• Web metrics

• Virus and security alerts

• Events and happenings in your city

• Gaming statistics

• Search for jobs

• Easing government bureaucracy

• Create your own news aggregator page

• Keep track of your notes

• Find recent photos taken near you

• Build maps

• Make Tag Clouds

• All those sites without RSS

• Become a comment blogger

• Patent Searching

• Keep your acquaintances updated with your latest contact details

• Ditch Your Girlfriend

• Print Your Feeds

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How does it work?

• First pick an RSS Aggregator

• Browser Based - Mozilla

• Desktop Based – News Gator

• Internet Based –

https://www.google.com/reader/

• Now find information to subscribe to!

• Blogs, news, searches, podcasts, image

pages, social bookmarks

How do I set up for RSS?

I highly recommend Google Reader

Let’s get an account

• Go to https://reader.google.com

• Click on “Create an Account”

• Fill out all information

• Submit

Welcome to Google Reader

Click here to search

for a feed

Let’s subscribe!

Click here to

add the feed

Now you are subscribed

How do I subscribe?

• Look for the RSS icons

• Click on the icon

What does all this look like?HINT: RSS links are often found at the bottom of a page

What does all this look like?

Click here

After you click on the RSS icon

Click here

Let’s Organize

Click here

• Folders are the key

• Group by topic

Folder Party!

Click here to

make a new folder

Example: Get specific news

• Step 1 – Go to http://news.google.com

• Step 2 – Type in your search in the search

box and click search

• Step 3 – Look on the left column for the

RSS link and click it

• Step 4 – Select “Add to Google Reader”

Google News for WHS

Click RSS and add it to

your Google Reader

Type in your search

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prior to this page)

The future here at Wando

• Online discussion groups

• Shared pages via departments

• Shared pages via curriculum teams

• Shared pages via the school

• How do you do this?

• Subscribe to my blog and I will show

you over the next few weeks

• http://lcrosswell.edublogs.org/

Questions and/or comments