Academia has embraced RSS as a means to educate, but scrutinizing how educational institutions are using RSS feeds in their daily routines Show RSS is utilized can vary across different industries. 1. share resources
Academics are using social bookmarking sites to share quality websites that are related to their area of expertise with colleagues and students. Examples of shared resources:
Delicious-http://del.icio.us social bookmarking system, Setup is to use as shared bookmarks, RSS feeds are available CiteULike- 2 http://www.citeulike.org share resources. Class Blogs
From elementary schools to University blogs, online magazines flourished. Instructors have used blogging as a tool for teaching. To help students learn writing and reporting skills while understanding how you use your technology. Many educational bloggers use RSS as a means to publish blog posts. 3. School Schedule Sports schedule
RSS feeds can be used to communicate events scheduled on or off the campus to prospective and existing students. Subscribes of a schools calendar feed receive notification as new items are added to your calendar. 4. Podcast lectures
Podcasts can be used as study guides or even as class preview for students contemplating their course selections or selections of professors. 5. supervise research
Students involved in cutting edge research projects can use RSS to monitor news and search engines for specific keywords (such as nanotechnology or cold fusion) by creating Search feeds. Any time a mention of the keyword phrase occurs in the News piece item appears in the Search feed.6. professional development
RSS can be used for external education. Teachers may lose less class time while still staying current on the latest techniques, trends and information in their area of expertise.
7. Job searches
Professors and teachers can create job search feeds. RSS feed is updated each time a position that meets your criteria becomes available. 8. Cooperation (writely wiki)
Universities participate in particular active in collaborative projects and research. New tools have never been cooperation easier. RSS can be used with many of the online collaboration tools to inform other contributors of the changes. 9. Search Feeds
Students are writing papers or working papers on specific topics can create search feeds, so every time the subject is mentioned, they receive the notification in their custom search feed. 10 Study Guides
Many Web sites that is focused on studying. Create RSS feeds, which includes day-to-day issues. There are feeds for "word of the day" or "issue of the day". Students can subscribe to the feed and integrate the long-term study in their daily routines. 11. Medical education
A recent study showed medial students who listened to heart noise on an ipod, was more likely to accurately diagnose heart murmurs exactly in patients. Some medical schools have begun to adopt podcasts as a way to educate. 12. Scholarships
Students can monitor high school and college scholarship opportunities using RSS feeds. 13. Subsidies
Academic researchers can monitor funding and grant opportunities using RSS feeds. 14. School News
Schools large or small can use RSS to communicate school news with their population, announces personnel changes, new courses or other news that is relevant and of interest to the student population. 15. Student financial aid news
Students and parents can listen to podcasts, to assist with financial aid, student loans and financial podcasts, to deal with difficult topics such as how to make college more affordable. Find educational Feeds and Podcasts-http://www.educational-feeds.com RSS is well suited to the world of academia and educators have embraced it as a medium. Technology and communications this year has helped to promote education in years. RSS feeds and Podcasting are a natural fit for academics, and its obvious when we look at how teachers, students and professors use it for further training. About the author:
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing and publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition, manages Sharon marketing for RecordForAll http://www.recordforall.com audio recording and editing software.
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