RSS and education
RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and Rich Site Summary. RSS provide XML-based format for content distribution. Using this standard, webmasters can provide headlines and fresh content in a succinct manner. The usages of RSS in an education context are described in the examples below:
- Schools can relay homework assignments and quickly announce school cancellations.
- Allow people track changing or new results to their research searches
- Provide listings of past or upcoming events, deadlines or holidays
- Provide new forum headlines and listing of new forum threads
- Provide lists of added or changed pages, so that people don’t need to constantly check for updates
- Provide a list of bookmarks and other external links
RSS readers and news aggregators are program that collect and monitor favourite feeds in one centralised location. Content viewed in the RSS reader or news aggregator is place known as an RSS feed.
1 comment May 4th, 2008
