I finally got around to tweaking the RSS: A Quick Start Guide for Educators I put together a few months ago. It had a few mistakes and the section on search feeds for Google News had instructions that no longer worked. Let me know if there are any other updates that might be required.
Could you make this document available in a non-proprietary format?
Here’s why distributing Word files is a bad idea:
http://www.rfc1149.net/documents/whynotword