Hmmm…I wonder how many people have “taught” Bloglines. I did today, showing my students the wonders of aggregation and setting them all up with accounts. They all subscribed to the New York Times front page, and I’m going to be feeding them some feeds on a pretty regular basis. The important thing at this stage is that they get the concept. One of my students asked how he could subscribe to Yahoo Sports and I told him to search Google for Yahoo Sports RSS. Wouldn’t you know the first result led him right to the XML. “Hey, that’s pretty cool!” he says and of course I hold him up as the day’s poster child for syndication. A few other heads seem to shake in agreement. (It also led me to this cool MyRSS site that I think I may have known about but added to my class page for further reference. It’s cool that there are more and more feeds to “good” journalism sites out there.) So anyway, now that Bloglines is a part of the curriculum, can WikiTravel be far behind??? (I really have to get a life…)
Good ideas…btw, you might want to correct the spelling of BLOGLINES…you forgot the “L”
oy…to many multitasks at once…thanks.
Have you seen MyWireService.com? Your site’s feed is on there and it’s free for educational institutions.
I spent the weekend creating a contract to teach a class on blogging for my district. The Syllabus includes Bloglines. I first read about it on your blog and I love it! I’ve been following your discussion of RSS and love the idea of subscribing to student blogs as a one stop way of handling all the reading.
cool! i have my students install their own wordpress blogs … we log on to servers and do it in class … then, they use bloglines to make a blogroll (we’re doing that now, too) … getting the concept is my goal for students, too … they are encouraged to use my blogroll of blogging professionals in areas they’d like to pursue – then, to make contacts (network), join in discussions, get new ideas (always citing the source), etc… then, we discuss (and they blog about) ways they can use CMS/portals/blogs, etc. in their future education and professional lives. i love ‘weblogg-ed’ … it is great to see the ideas of others and feel ‘part’ of something (rather than some oddball) :o) you’re doing great work. thank you for the site!