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Will Richardson: RSS the Killer App

Podcast to follow

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Focus on your learning during the workshop…

Can buy his book, or just download the RSS guide for teachers at his site.

Technology to bring information to you.

We subscribe to mags and newspapers so we don’t have to go out and get it… it comes to you. Same concept here.

Built in in blogs.

RSS comes to your “reader”… if you can get your head around that, you’re fine.

Will showing us how he organizes his GoogleReader (folders by interest).

Can be a good thing or bad… could be information overload… leads to guilt
New literacy skill: processing all the information very quickly… connects to me or doesn’t

With GoogleReader… “add a star” to read later

Can also share and it will go to the shared page

Can edit the tags to organize things for me… other readers don’t allow

Can search for your interests

Go to google and also add RSS

Will explains how to “right click” to get the address.

How to subscribe for “news items” in Google News … and you get way too much … but… go to the advanced setting and just specify that you want it from a few papers, rather than the other 400+!

Can also go to Google Blog and search there

Will talks about delicious and tagging

Can even get an RSS from flickr… YouTube

Other Alternatives: Pageflakes

Can put RSS and turn to Java Script to put on a webpage
I’m going to do this to build the new home page for my school!

Book:
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger