RSS

I never fully understood what RSS was, or what it was used for. After completing this assignment I now know what it means. RSS is an ingenious way to bring all of my interests into one spot. For example, with email, we don't have to go and check each one of our friend's accounts to see if they sent us an email. Instead, we get all the emails they send us, in one place, which is our inbox. RSS works the same way, instead of going to this site and that website to look for what we are interested in, we get all of our interests broad casted to one place, our Google Reader page. Where all of our subscribed interests show up each day with new information and news! That is what I like about RSS and Newsreaders.

It is easy for me to use this knowledge/application for my work and personal life, because it saves my time from searching up so many different websites to find what I am looking for. Instead, I just get what I'm looking for in one page. As an example, I am very interested in cars, so instead of searching the web for all the different car sites that will bring me my favorite news, I just subscribe to the several websites I like, and all of their news is brought to me, instead of me, looking for them.

Students and teachers can take advantage of this technology because it can help them with all their information being neatly organized and properly updated. In my case as a student, I would subscribe to various websites of information for a project I may have to complete for school. In this case I would simply click the RSS button on the sites I choose for newly updated information, and receive that info on a daily basis, getting the latest news. The most useful way to use RSS for a teacher or student that I can think of is to have a local site for news and information for assignments for students sent by their teachers, instead of the teacher having to email each student, they put it up on the local website, and it is transmitted to the student's RSS feed. ex. Google reader. This is somewhat like the way VLN has their website working, we, the students go to your homepage of ICT 12 Digital Media and get the latest news on meeting dates, assignments, ruberics, and deadlines.