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What is RSS?
Most commonly know as Really Simple Syndication but also know as Rich Site Summary It's a format for Aggregating web content that is updated frequently into one place. Rather than visiting 20 or 30 sites or wading through spam in your e-mail, information comes to you in one place. You can read subscribe and get information from News sites and blogs. Whenever information is updated at the web site, the aggregator is updated. media type="custom" key="10042479" align="center"

[|Jason Rhode]

RSS in Plain English
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Examples

 * Our Blogs
 * Our WIki
 * [|RSS Weather] for [|Gorham ME]
 * [|Earthquake data]
 * [|Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
 * [|Global Science NOW]
 * [|Google News]: Subscribe to a Google News search
 * [|Del.icio.us]: Subscribe to a Del.icio.us bookmark Tag
 * [|Google Calendar]:Subscribe to a calendar of events

Aggregators

 * [|iGoogle]
 * [|Google Reader]
 * [|Pageflakes]
 * [|NetVibes]
 * [|Bloglines]
 * [|Safari RSS]
 * [|Google News]
 * [|Technorati]

Activity

 * Make a list of newspapers or sites that you frequent often that you want to use to start building your RSS Reader.
 * Check to see if they have an RSS Feed
 * How could an RSS reader fit into your job?
 * How you can see RSS being used in your school? [|Take a look at use feed readers to organize student thinking]

Resources for iGoogle
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 * iGoogle [|overview]
 * iGoogle [|Almanac]

Resources for Google Reader
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 * [|Newbie's Guide to Google Reader]
 * [|Google Almanac: Reader]
 * Google Reader: Getting Started

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Reading

 * A good explanation of RSS from Andy Carvin at [|Learning Now]
 * [|7 Things] You should Know about RSS
 * Will Richardson's [|RSS Guide]
 * D'Souza, Quentin (January 15, 2006). [Weblog] 50+ RSS Ideas for Educators. //Teaching Hacks.com//. Retrieved October 6, 2006, from [|http://www.teachinghacks.com/index.php?s=Web 2.0 ideas]

Education Subscription Sources
> **Elementary:**
 * **Administrators**
 * [|ASCD Blog]
 * [|Christopher D Sessums]
 * [|Practical Theory]
 * [|21st Learning Collabertive]
 * [|The Struth]
 * [|Edutopia]
 * [|Dangerously Irrelevant]
 * [|Leader Talk]
 * [|Kim Cofino]
 * [|2M Gems]
 * [|Kathy Cassidy]
 * [|Classroom Blogs]
 * **For Middle School/High School:**
 * [|The Fischbowl]
 * [|Sargent Park Math Zone]
 * [|Extreme Biology]
 * [|100 Best Blogs for Educators]
 * **Education Technology Related**
 * [|2 Cents Worth]
 * [|Cool Cat Teacher]
 * [|Moving at the Speed of Creativity]
 * [|TechLearning]
 * [|Jeff Utecht]
 * [|Weblogg-ed]
 * [|Web 2.0 in the Classroom]
 * [|Free Technology for Teachers]