How many times have you read a great article and mentioned it in class, only to be greeted by a sea of blank stares? Certainly students can be given a URL and asked to pull up the content.   What if you could guarantee that your students would have access to the latest article from the Science Times before class? Now that you understand how to locate your favorite feeds and bring them to your homepage or aggregator, you have the ability to push this content to your students.  If you want them to read a specific feed for class discussion you have several options:

  1. Put the RSS feed on your webpage and direct students to that site.
  2. Insert the RSS feed on your WebCT page with one of several simple tools available. (see the Tools, Tips, and Tricks category.)
  3. Show students how to subscribe to specific feeds on their homepage, myspace page, or aggregator of their choice.  Students are familiar with the technology and use it regularly.

When students use feeds to push content to “their space“, it becomes a part of their reality and “their space” is transformed into a “learning space.” How can you increase this transformation?  Read the post on feeding hungry students!