For activity 3, we learned something about RSS in Google Reader. It is an aggregator which has a lot of feeds. The feeds could be blog posts, videos, articles, news, photos, and so on. We can choose some feeds that interest us, create a bundle and post the link of the bundle on our blogs or wikis. What’s amazing is that if the author of the site changes something on the site, it automatically updated on the blog who subscribe to that feed.
When using RSS in education, I would say that both of the teachers and students will benefit a lot. Firstly, students can easily keep pace with the recourses in time that posted to the blog through the RSS feeds. RSS can also help them to concentrate on the resources that associate with their research study. For example, the students who are taking a political science class have found many websites or blogs on the internet that are publishing some interesting events. It is almost impossible for them to click those sites every time they updated. However, it is much easier to go to one site to read all of the new information. As we all know, online resources have flourished during recent years. It will take a lot of time to search online every time they start their research, especially for the students in university. So RSS will help to save much time and energy. Secondly, teachers can use the RSS feeds to select some useful recourse which will make the students concentrate on their school work. It can be used as guidance or a class preview for students. Children, especially young guys can easily be distracted by some funny pictures or interesting games on the internet, they will go any direction besides of the study which will out of the teacher’s control. RSS can help to solve this problem that plagued the teacher who advocate to use technology in education.
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