What is RSS and Why Should I Care?

Information for K-12 Educators and Administrators

Presenter: Leah Stephenson

Botetourt County Public Schools

lstephenson@bcps.k12.va.us

Additional Materials Located Here:

www.bcps.k12.va.us/vste2008.htm

John Herndon’s Bloghttp://www.glnd.k12.va.us/weblog/jhendron/

Furry Bee cc licensed Flickr photo by Automania

Spider on Daylilycc licensed Flickr photo by aussiegall

Relaxcc licensed Flickr photo by BlakJakDavy

Got Newspaper?cc licensed Flickr photo by Dillon H.

The Choicescc licensed Flickr photo by Orin Optiglot

Outside the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.cc licensed Flickr photo by Robert Dumas

RSS

Really Simple Syndicationor

Rich Site Summary

<?xml version="1.0"?> <rss version="2.0"><channel><item><title>Greenfield Podcasts</title><link>http://www.bcps.k12.va.us/greenfield/podcast002.mp3</link><description>Greenfield Elementary Events Podcast</description><link>http://www.bcps.k12.va.us/greenfield</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>2007</copyright><enclosure url="http://www.bcps.k12.va.us/greenfield/podcast002.mp3 length=5917928 type="audio/mpeg"/>

</rss>

Makes me wanna jumpcc licensed Flickr photo by laurenatclemson

iGoogle Account

Baby birds!cc licensed Flickr photo by .robbie

Feeds

Elements of Google Reader

Shift ?

OPML

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/14049078780749090545

Shared Items

http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/

http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=324

http://thinklab.typepad.com/think_lab/

http://zenhabits.net/

http://photojojo.com/

http://www.leadertalk.org/

http://www.leadertalk.org/

http://www.slackermanager.com/

http://lifehacker.com/

http://blog.ted.com/

Other Ways to Use RSS

Flickr

News Searches

Calendar

Student Blogs

Shared Items

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/14049078780749090545

Google Document Changes

Packages, Weather. . . and many more

How To Track Packages

http://isnoop.net/tracking/

Weather

From http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/

Weather in Roanoke, VA, use the zip code for Roanoke (24016): http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=24016”

Amazon

Amazon Bestsellers

Hot New Releases

Movers & Shakers

Craig’s List

UVA Feeds

http://www.virginia.edu/rss.html

Virginia Tech Feeds

http://www.hokiesports.com/rssfeed.html

Capybaracc licensed Flickr photo by Schmeeve

RUS

Rodent of Unusual Size Princess Bride Reference

What is RSS and Why Should I Care?

Presenter: Leah Stephenson

lstephenson@bcps.k12.va.us

Additional Materials Located Here:

www.bcps.k12.va.us/vste2008.htm