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29 July 2011 1 RSS RSS a 10 minute presentation for a 10 minute presentation for the Bloomsbury Colleges the Bloomsbury Colleges Mira Vogel Goldsmiths Learning Enhancement Unit
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A 10 minute presentation on RSS to library staff in the Bloomsbury Colleges, summer 2011 (but slideshare has chewed it up a bit...)
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RSS RSS a 10 minute presentation for the a 10 minute presentation for the
Bloomsbury CollegesBloomsbury Colleges
Mira Vogel
Goldsmiths Learning Enhancement Unit
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OverviewOverview
• What is RSS, how does it help?• How to spot a ‘feed’• Using a reader
1. Subscribe to a feed
2. Read feeds
3. Feeding from place to place
• Ambitious vision for RSS feeds in learning
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What is RSS, how does it What is RSS, how does it help?help?• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
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Using a readerUsing a reader
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Some browsers are Some browsers are control freakscontrol freaks
so you have to find a so you have to find a way round.way round.
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Subscribing – for example:Subscribing – for example:
• Phil Bradley (librarian blogger, Web 2.0 pundit)http://philbradley.typepad.com/
• Higher Education (journal)http://www.springerlink.com/content/0018-1560/
• Read Write Web (Web 2.0 news site)http://www.readwriteweb.com/
• Dave Cormier (educational blogger)http://davecormier.com/edblog/
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At-a-glance view
Each entry
clickable Scrollable
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Expands to give
more infoLinks to
each web page.
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Organise in folders
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What else can we do?What else can we do?
• Star items• Reorder folders, most important first• Search• Form communities
– Share items (yes - feeding feeds!) – Subscribe to others’
• And…
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We can display feeds in We can display feeds in different placesdifferent places
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Fragmented web lives cohere at Fragmented web lives cohere at lastlast
Our web Our web bookmarksbookmarksOur libraryOur library
OurOurblogblog
widget
widgetwidget
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So with very little So with very little outlay of effort, RSS outlay of effort, RSS
lets us:lets us:
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… … gather dispersed gather dispersed stuff stuff
into other contexts …into other contexts …
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… … externalise our externalise our working lives, working lives,
be visible …be visible …
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… … become a resource become a resource for our communities.for our communities.
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The way ahead: The way ahead: a pioneering vision a pioneering vision
for RSSfor RSS
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e.g. CCK11, a MOOCe.g. CCK11, a MOOC
Dave CormierUPEI
Stephen DownesNational Research
Council & Uni of Manitoba
George SiemensUni of Manitoba
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e.g. CCK11, a MOOCe.g. CCK11, a MOOC
Massive – scales up, network of facts improves with numbers
Open – diversity and numbers
Online – distribution, autonomy
Course – events in time, together
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e.g.
DistributedDistributed
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“reduce the friction”
“splice information together in different contexts”
Pull in blog objects…
… turn them into discussion objects…
…feed them back to the original post.
e.g. CCK11, a MOOCe.g. CCK11, a MOOC
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http://grsshopper.downes.ca/
