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wc08 12/29/2009 6:08:22

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

//Kathleen Cercone, Kaplan University, Florida, USA, kapdocc@gmail.com//
 * Using RSS Feeds to Keep Informed**

The use of RSS can make information available for you and your students. RSS is easy to implement and allows such conveniences as updating your course from your cell phone and accessing news updates from most websites. This discussion will start with the basics and eventually address how you can implement and immediately begin to use feeds in your course.​ Not only can RSS benefit your students but it also can keep you informed about current events.

Additionally, the presenter will discuss how to use alternate methods of republishing your personal feed from your blog and updating students inside a course management system. No password is required and your students get immediate updates, even if you only have a cellphone available.

1. RSS defined 2. How to use a personal blog to republish your feed 3. How you can find feeds 4. What to do with them once you find feeds 5. Using widgets and embeded codes 6. Putting the feed into a course management system 7. Other methods of feed delivery: email and RSS Readers 8. Using your cell phone to update your course feed and keep students informed 9. The use of homepages that collect feeds to keep yourself informed

All Audiences online RSS web2.0 cms