Thanks - some useful introductory information on RSS but Tute#1 wasn't working today but #2 very good.
RSS via Google Reader makes it all so simple! What I like so much about using RSS is that it collects the information ready for you to look at. One thing I (and I assume many others too!) need to be careful of it to limit the number of subscriptions we have. I have subscribed to a number of library related ones and have been getting some very useful information/articles etc.
In a school setting it would be a very useful tool for teacher PD to show them how to collect the type of articles they are looking for or to subscribe to blogs etc they have found relevant.
For students it would be useful to subscribe to a range of services that relate eg to a particular assignment. One example I can think of is a topic for Year 12 Nutrition which is global hunger. There are a number of NGO's and other sites where upto date information, statistics etc are coming through and will build up a great selection of current resources.
There are also many other subjects that require students to choose a current topic/theme etc and using RSS would give them another 'set' of information to use.
The options to star useful 'feeds', save to delicious etc are all very helpful and assist in joining the web2.0 tools together almost seemlessly!
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