We had 9 instructors attend a Professional Development program last night. My part was to introduce them to RSS and what it can mean for them. Our new full-time IT hire (yippee!) was the only one who knew what RSS was, so it was very new to the rest of them.
The things I highlighted were how it could eliminate the time it took to keep up-to-date, how easy it was to set up, how Google Reader was so easy to use, and sample RSS feeds they might want to try. Very successful!
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Thursday, December 06, 2007
RSS In Plain English
I love this site!
It's called Common Craft-Explanations In Plain English. They work with clients and create videos for-profit, but they also create basic educational videos on Web 2.0 technologies.
They have them for:
Blogs
Wikis
Social Networking
and
Social Bookmarking to name a few.
I find their videos to be very well done. In short videos, they explain the basics of each technology and how it can improve a user's online experience. If a student or teacher ever inquires about them, I recommend showing them this site as I don't think I've seen an introduction that has been as clear as these are.
My favorite video is the RSS video below.
It's called Common Craft-Explanations In Plain English. They work with clients and create videos for-profit, but they also create basic educational videos on Web 2.0 technologies.
They have them for:
Blogs
Wikis
Social Networking
and
Social Bookmarking to name a few.
I find their videos to be very well done. In short videos, they explain the basics of each technology and how it can improve a user's online experience. If a student or teacher ever inquires about them, I recommend showing them this site as I don't think I've seen an introduction that has been as clear as these are.
My favorite video is the RSS video below.
~Krista Jacobson
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