Making RSS Work for YOU

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What is RSS?Real Simple Syndication

RSS feeds provide web content in a specific format that allows

sites and software to republish the information in

new ways

Breaking it down

Same data, different look

Where do you find RSS?

Finding the Feed

With your browser

Ways people can subscribe

•Aggregator

•Email Apps•Browser•My Yahoo•Inbox

Optimizing your feed

Why you should burn your feeds

Adding it to your site

Fire up your Feeds•If you don’t have an aggregator, register at Bloglines.com•Find the RSS feed for your site•Register at Feedburner.com•Point readers to your new feed

•Put a chicklet in your blog’s sidebar•Copy and paste the code from Publicize > Chicklet Chooser

•Adjust the hidden link to your feed in your site’s header

•Look for lines starting with <link rel=“alternate” type=“application/rss+xml”

Beyond basic RSS:A world of syndication

Something new to subscribe to

•Resources are at Teach42.com/Advanced-RSS

•Explore new types of RSS feeds

•Bookmark/subscribe a few new feeds

Mixing it up:Share your feeds in new and

interesting ways

Flickr

Del.icio.us

SuprGlu

FeedJumbler

Feed Digest

HTML to RSS and back again

Putting it in your site

1. Find your feed2. Get the html

code3. Insert it in

your site4. Publish it!

RSS in Education

GCPS

Shanghai American School

Tracking the Supreme Court

Dave Warlick’s presentation resources

Lewis Elementary School

How are you going to use this?

Teach42.com/Advanced-RSS

Making RSS Work for You

Steve DemboSteve_Dembo@Discovery.c

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