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RSS: The most powerful learning resource you don’t even know about
1. Overview
- The most important tool you probably don’t know
- Kathy’s basket
- How to make better teachers
- What are educators’ professional obligations to learn from social media channels?
- RSS Guide for Educators (a work in progress!)
- Google Reader (see also Google Reader hotkeys)
2. A dozen education blogs that every educator should be reading
- Dangerously Irrelevant
- Free Technology for Teachers
- Will Richardson
- EdWeek TeacherBeat
- EdWeek Living in Dialogue
- The Answer Sheet
- Reinventing PBL
- Education Rethink
- Powerful Learning Practice
- Cooperative Catalyst
- Andrew Miller
- Burkins & Yaris
3. Some other awesome education blogs
- Education Elements (Jason Glass) [IOWA]
- Des Moines Register Education Blog [IOWA]
- Iowa TransformEd [IOWA]
- Education in Iowa [IOWA]
- This Week in Education
- For the Love of Learning
- Jose Vilson
- Larry Ferlazzo
- The Tempered Radical
- User Generated Education
- SpeEdChange
- Stump the Teacher
- Education Evolving
- Cooperative Catalyst
- Diane Ravitch
- ASCD Inservice
- EdWeek Rural Education
- EdReach
- Education Is My Life
- Larry Cuban
- CNN Schools of Thought
- Huffington Post Education
- See also all of EdWeek’s blogs
4. Some educational technology blogs
- MindShift
- Hack Education
- Edutopia
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog
- 2¢ Worth
- Langwitches Blog
- Moving at the Speed of Creativity
- Ideas and Thoughts
- Generation YES Blog
- The Blue Skunk Blog
- Steve Hargadon
- Stager-to-Go
- The Edublogger
- Assorted Stuff
- The Fischbowl
- 21st Century Collaborative
- EdWeek EdTech Researcher
- EdWeek Digital Education
- DML Research Hub
- OLDaily
- Angela Maiers
- 1-to-1 Schools
- TeachThought
- Edudemic
5. Some educational leadership blogs
- Connected Principals
- Practical Theory
- A Space for Learning
- Principals Page
- The Principal of Change
- A Principal’s Reflections
- Learning in Burlington
- The Principal’s Posts
- 21k12
- Culture of Yes
- NAESP The Principals’ Office
- NASSP Principal’s Policy Blog
- EdWeek Transforming Learning
- EdWeek School Law Blog
- NSBA Legal Clips
- NSBA School Board News Today
- SchoolFinance101
- See also Principal Blogs
- See also Superintendent Blogs
6. Subject-specific blogs
7. Maximizing your reader
- TreeHugger, Mashable, Perez Hilton, etc. [get those other blogs you love into your reader!]
- Des Moines Register, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Quad-City Times, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Omaha World-Herald, Sioux City Journal, etc. [get your local/national paper into your reader!]
- New York Times, CNN, USA Today, Huffington Post, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, E! Online (scroll to bottom), etc. [get those national news sites into your reader!]
- ISU News, U. Iowa News, Drake U. News [get the news from your alma mater into your reader!]
- Google Reader search (e.g., woodworking, wine, Minnesota Vikings, crafts); see also Technorati categories [get your personal interests and hobbies into your reader!]
- Google Alerts [set up an alert for an online search, your name, your organization, etc. and get it into your reader!]
- rssWeather or Weather.com
- Package tracking
- Feed43 [turns any web page into RSS feed]
- Convert Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, and other channels into RSS feeds
- Convert Delicious bookmarks into RSS feed [see also my Delicious bookmarks]
- Send from Google Reader to Kindle
- Other Send To options
- Sharing Google Reader bundles
- 10 things you didn’t know you could do with RSS
- 50 things you can do with RSS
- 100 cool things you can do with RSS
8. Got an iPad or smartphone?
Hey Scott,
What are your thoughts on the “RSS is Dead” meme?
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/13/rss-is-not-not-not-not-not-dead/
Personally, I think it is alive and well and thank you for providing this resource for school leaders.
Matt
I think RSS IS a tool for the masses, but RSS readers as they’re typically configured may not be? I think of tools like Flipboard or Zite, however. It’s hard to think that those aren’t relevant and useful interfaces for people (that, oh, by the way, happen to be based on RSS)…
Thanks, Scott, for some great blog links. A wealth of info.