Check this out! (Note the right hand column.) I had my kids put the Manila viewRSS macro on their pages to feed search results right to their site. Mallory is writing about those in poverty in our primarily affluent area who fall through the cracks. So she’s aggregating Google news stories about poverty for background research. It’s coming to her instead of her finding and going to it. What a concept…
Now I have a lot more to write about this at some point, but my kids were primarily a) amazed and b) frustrated by the irrelevance of most of what was coming up. I’ll have some thoughts on that later. Another step…
Whoa, hold on there! How do WE do that? Is that only a Manilla feature. How do the rest of us get an RSS feed like that onto our class blogs? Please do tell!!!
This is a macro used in Manila, but I know you can do the same thing with Moveable Type. Tim Lauer uses it on his Lewis Elementary site.
Darn, I don’t use either–yet!