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[|RSS] technologies can enrich your teaching practices, optimize time spent on lesson planning, and produce greater student content retention. Too good to be true? Well, unlike the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, the odds of winning and winning big are in your favor. Read on.

Students today are very techno savvy. They may have no idea how to solve a basic math equation, but ask them to post a video of the class to YouTube, and it will be done faster than a nano can byte. (Little bit of techno humor there). So, as a teacher, what strategies will you employ to shift your student’s fascination with technology to fascination with your classwork?

Let's start with the basics. What is RSS? With so much information flooding into our lives and new technologies becoming commonplace rather than the exception, streamlining of information is vital to your survival as an effective teacher. So how can RSS help?
 * 1)   First and foremost you need to maximize your efficiency on the WEB and harness its potential. RSS technologies will make that so much easier for you, they provide you with a tool to identify and prescreen sites for yourself and your students. This will focus the students on your topic and help prevent web browsing on topics you are not currently discussing.
 * 2)   RSS can provide you the teacher with a quick, on demand tool for social networking with other educators. No longer are you chained to the schedule of meetings and seminars to augment your teaching methodologies, you can tweak away at your convenience with RSS.
 * 3)   Want the most up to date information? That is exactly what an RSS will accomplish for you. The site itself will send you notification of the update.
 * 4) RSS is a protocol that lets users [//that would be// you] subscribe to online content using a "reader" or "aggregator." Internet users tend to settle on preferred information sources[ //favorite internet site//] . RSS allows users to create a list of those sources in an application that automatically retrieves updates, saving users considerable time and effort” (7 things you should know...).
 * 5)   <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Tired of endlessly searching for exactly the right information for your application? Once again RSS to the rescue. RSS has the ability to identify new sources of information based on keywords or tags (Richardson, 2006, p. 76).
 * 6) <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Tired of spam and advertisements? RSS will assist with that as well (Richardson, 2006, p. 76).
 * 7) <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Intrigued? Want more information?

<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> Click on the big orange button for a gentle introduction to RSS

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For a primer on RSS click here [|RSS Ideas for Educators]

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