I’m not going to lie and say that I’ve been blogging and using RSS feeds for years. The fact is I never heard of RSS feeds until these classes much less used them. Although, GoogleReader is a very convenient tool for keeping up with the news with which you are particularly interested in staying current. The following are five news feeds to which I am now subscribing: Edutopia; International Society for Technology Education (ISTE); Open Education; TechLearning; and The APA Style Blog.
Edutopia retrieved from feed://www.edutopia.org/edutopia_rss.xml
Edutopia is a site put together by the “George Lucas Educational Foundation” retrieved July 1, 2010 from http://www.edutopia.org/ it is an excellent source for teachers of all academic disciplines. The site and resulting RSS feed provides information on the latest concepts and reforms of both education and supportive technologies. For information on Multiple Intelligences Theory in practice to Project Based Learning this site is an extraordinary font of knowledge.
ISTE retrieved from feed://www.iste.org/AM/rssfeed.cfm
ISTE is a site and news feed from the International Society for Technology Education retrieved July1, 2010 from http://www.iste.org/ it is a great source for all things related to utilizing technology in and through education. ISTE is a professional and global organization of educators. They provide up to the minute news and ideas from around the world on trends in technology education and included up to the minute reporting on it’s 2010 conference in Denver, CO which just only yesterday concluded.
Open Education is retrieved July1, 2010 from http://www.openeducation.net/
The feed is found at feed://www.openeducation.net/feed/ the site and feed is about the changes taking place in education due to technology and the resulting issues. Some of the topics include articles about how to Google-proof a test question and refer to an article about a digital version of Bloom’s Taxonomy. It is a very thought provoking site/feed and included a tongue in cheek article about the competence of two researchers who happened to be studying the concepts of competence and incompetence of people in their study about competence. It was quite humorous in an academic way.
TechLearning retrieved from feed://www.techlearning.com/rss from the website of the same name retrieved July 1, 2010 from http://www.techlearning.com/Default is a mildly interesting, commercial magazine-site full of many advertisers. In fact you must click on a button to skip the resulting ads. However the RSS feed seems to be free of such trivial stuff. The TechLearning feed includes articles about the latest gadgets and hardware available to educators. As an RSS feed it is acceptable.
The APA Style Blog retrieved July 1, 2010 from http://blog.apastyle.org/ and the resulting feed from feed://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/atom.xml is exactly what it purports to be, all the latest and greatest information of our favorite way of writing, the APA Style. It includes truly up to the minute information on changes in APA Style and could be a true blessing for someone in a tight bind, caught in that netherworld where technology-information is changing at breakneck speed and APA hasn’t caught up yet. A handy tool.
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