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What I learned at NationalEducationalComputingConference!

Social Software? (I actually knew quite a bit about it, but wanted to learn more from the experts)

 

The key to all of this new class of software is RSS. What is RSS? I am glad you asked.

*RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication. It is an XML format for sharing content among different Web sites such as news items.

 

*How does it work?

A Web site can allow other sites to publish some of its content by creating an RSS document and registers the document with an RSS publisher. A web publisher can post a link to the rss feed so users can read the distributed content on his/her site. Syndicated content can can include news feeds, listings of events, stories, headlines, etc. In plain terms, using RSS you can request information to come to your computer whenever there are new articles ready.

 

*What's an RSS feed?

To help you keep up to date with changes made recently on your wiki, every wiki has a computer-readable list of the changes made, using a format called RSS. If you use browsers like Firefox or Safari, or RSS readers like FeedReader, NetNewsWire, SharpReader, or BlogLines, you can stay up to date on how your wiki is being changed without having to revisit your wiki all the time. Note that if your wiki is password-protected, you will need to supply the password to your feed reader; many readers ask for the URL to your site/blog/feed - just give them the URL

 

What kind of software uses RSS?

Blogs, Wikis, Flickr, del.icio.us, FURL, Podcasts, Moodle, etc.

 

In English please!

 

Blog-An online journal, published frequently (often daily). Readers can post comments on each journal entry. The term blog is a shortening of weblog. Example We have also set up a blog for the T4 Team and for the District Teacher Specialists.

Wiki-A Wiki or wiki (pronounced wǐkē, wēkē or vēkē; see pronunciation section below) is a website (or other hypertext document collection) that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content. "Wiki" also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a website. Example

Flickr-Flickr is a digital photo sharing website and web services suite. It was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver, Canada company founded in 2002. Example

del.icio.us-del.icio.us is a social software web service for sharing web bookmarks. del.icio.us was developed by Joshua Schachter, co-maintainer of Memepool. Use of the service is currently free. The source code is not available, but entered data is downloadable through the API. According to del.icio.us/doc/about: Everything posted to del.icio.us is publicly viewable; it is not a tool for storing private bookmark collections. Many people use del.icio.us to publish "linkblogs" on their weblogs. Example

FURL-Furl will archive any page, allowing you to recall, share, and discover useful information on the Web. Browse your personal archive of Web pages, and subscribe to other archives via RSS. Example

Podcast-"Podcasting" is making audio files (most commonly in MP3 format) available online in a way that allows software to automatically download the files for listening at the user's convenience. Example This will take a few minutes to completely download!

Moodle-Moodle is an open source e-learning platform. It has a relatively large—and rapidly growing—user base. It is a course management system similar to BlackBoard® or WebCT®. Example

Kelly Dumont made this.

 

http://www.theeducationalmac.com/blog/ is his blog.

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