Unbelievable!! I was searching through my school based e-mail last night. I usually get a few useless e-mails everyday, so I just go through and delete them. Last night I was noticing an e-mail that was titled "CCPS Press Releases". I never heard them use this language before in an e-mail. I opened the e-mail and to my surprise it was a group of articles that are in the form of a blog. I scrolled down through the list of article and I saw the familiar RSS/XML button. I thought I was seeing things. I couldn't believe my eyes. Someone is beginning to get with he program. I immediately subscribed to the press releases. Now, when I open up the education section of my feeds, I get my districts press releases automatically.
My goal is to now discuss with someone the importance of making the site a little more interactive. I think it is only fair to have a comment section to the articles. I know this will open up a can of worms that the district probably doesn't want to hear, but they need to hear it!
I am going to stay on top of this. I don't want this to end here. I would like to see more effort put into creating on-line tools that are teacher, student, and parent friendly. What about a school based curriculum wiki. What about creating a weekly podcast per grade level that is linked to this site for student and parent use. The possibilities are endless.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
My District? RSS?
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I read on Web-logged that you were looking for science feeds for kids, I spent hours last fall searching out feeds that were appropriate for elementary kiddos. I wrote about them on my blog. Here's the url if you are interested. http://anotsodifferentplace.blogspot.com/search/label/RSS%20feeds
...and here's what it looks like on our blog http://areallydifferentplace.org/aggregator/categories
Thank you very much for th info. I will look at these feeds to see how usefull they will be. This will definitely give me a starting point.
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