RSS information feed

Have you ever noticed this icon on websites? It is a symbol that is used to indicate that the website has an information feed that you can subscribe to. This means that you can get updates from the website without ever having to go back to it.

This is really useful on websites that have lots of changes. There is a growing number of teachers in this state, country and world that maintain a blog. There are also some very interesting bloggers in the business and management sector. Subscribing to these blogs will allow you to keep up with the discoveries that these people make. Blogging yourself is a way of recording your ideas and discoveries. So RSS is a very effective method for professional development.

Accessing updates in this way generally means that you get a steady stream of information from various sources. It supports good learning because you get to hear about trends in bite sized chunks and from various angles. By writing about what these things mean to you in your blog, for later reference, makes for even more effective learning.

Keep an eye out for this icon and if subscribing to these sorts of feeds is appealing to you then I would recommend using Google Reader as the way of collecting the feeds from the various websites that you subscribe to.

I recommend watching this 3 minute online video ‘RSS in plain English’ to understand this idea better.