Download Fusion Finds: Getting the Most of RSS

• The Futures Channel
• Bloglines
• Fusion RSS Workshop Webpage
• Google Docs
• Google Calendar
• On-line Forms from Jot Form
• Flickr
• Daily Lit
• Ebay custom search
• Target circular
• RSS in Plain English video by Common Craft
• YouTube Feeds
• Movies: Movies.com
• iTunes new music
• Food Network
• ESPN News Feeds
• Travelocity
• Real Estate Feeds
• Stock Quotes
• Smartboard Lesson Podcast
• 10×10

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This tutorial is for the staff of Willard R-II Schools.

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Watch for an upcoming tutorial on how to post a classified ad on the Staff Classified Blog.

For those teachers who want to know about using SlideShare’s new Slidecast feature, that is an upcoming post.

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Mr. Fisher’s video on RSS

To learn more, register for my summer workshop, Finding and Subscribing to Blogs using Bloglines, on August 2nd.

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You may have noticed the many chicklets, or buttons, that have started appearing on web sites. Buttons for digging, tagging, sharing, but mostly for subscribing to the content of that site, aka RSS (Really Simple Syndication).

RSS works like a magazine subscription.

1. When you find a magazine (website, podcast, blog, etc) you enjoy and choose to subscribe, new editions (content) are delivered to your mailbox (reader).
2. It stays in your mailbox (reader) until you open it.
3. When you have time, you read only the articles (podcast episodes, blog posts, etc) in the magazine that interest you.
4. Then you throw it away (delete).
5. You can also cancel a subscription at any time.
6. Differences: there is no junk mail or spam and subscriptions are free.

RSS is not just for subscribing to blogs. You will also find the chicklets on news sites, del.icio.us tag pages, wikis, podcasts, a search, video channel, etc. Recently I had a teacher comment that it made sense to him when I explained how I no longer walk out into my front yard each morning to pick up the Newsleader to read. I open my Bloglines account from my porch and read the sections I’ve chosen to subscribe to in my Bloglines account.

Bloglines is the aggregator I recommend. It is web-based, free, and very easy to use. Since it is such a popular reader, you often see the Bloglines chicklets available on sites for convenient 1 click subscribing. To see an example, you can view my Bloglines account.

In Part I of the RSS: A Four Part Series presentation from the K12 Online Conference, James Gates and Kurt Paccio do an excellent job of explaining RSS and demonstrating Bloglines. I highly recommend watching the presentation.
To learn more about RSS, click the Subscribe button at the top if this blog, or register for my summer workshop, Finding and Subscribing to Blogs, on Thursday, August 2nd.

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