As I was laying awake before dawn this morning listening to the Vermont rain pound on the roof of our tent, I had this crazy vision of using rss feeds to create a separate site where all the teacher portfolio entires were collected, or all the class entries by students were automatically posted. I need to ask Sarah tomorrow more about the rss-ability of these sites and how that all works. That would just be another cool way to sell this, as a way to offer one-stop shopping for teachers or supervisors or whatever.
I’m interested in hearing what you find out. I have been trying to read up on using rss the way you describe but am still confused (I can do some rss stuff even with pMachine). As usual, given some time it seems you could create some interesting experiences across students’ blogs or even collaborative opportunities across schools. Let us know what you discover.
Hi Will and Joe,
sorry for being so slow with my email responses these days. Last week I was burried in little tasks.
Sounds like I need to write up some ideas on the use of RSS soon.
I have posted an initial response to Will’s post at http://seblogging.cognitivearchitects.com/2002/08/05#a227
But I guess I need to express my ideas in a longer piece.
Joe,
here is a little intro to RSS
http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/
Well, I’m new here but been in frontier land for a while and setting up syndication repositories (places where many syndicated sites can be read) is real easy in manila you can use a custom macro that can aggragate many feeds together to put all of a teachers students updates all on one page for the teacher, or a teacher could use a news reader like Radio Userland or NetNewsWire or one of the other feed readers.
Sam D
http://www.teachesme.com
Frontier wonk and teacher…