Web 2.0 ideas for educators

Web 2.0 Ideas for
Educators

A Guide to RSS and More

Version 2.0
By Quentin D’Souza

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"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the workprescribed for it, but a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity intheir modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable." -John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

Quentin D’Souza

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SHOULD YOU READ THIS?.............................................................................................................. 6
WHAT IS RSS AND ATOM FEED? ................................................................................................. 6
WEB 2.0 – I DIDN’T KNOW THERE WAS A 1.0? ................................................................. 7
WHAT IS A FOLKSONOMY AND TAGGING? ........................................................................... 8
ISSUESAROUND TAGGING....................................................................................................................... 9
WHAT IS CREATIVE COMMONS? ................................................................................................. 9
THINK ABOUT STUDENT PRIVACY...........................................................................................10
WHAT DOES A FEED DO? ............................................................................................................... 11
WHAT DOES A FEED LOOK LIKE?.............................................................................................. 12
HOW CAN YOU USE FEEDS?......................................................................................................... 13
USING AN ONLINE AGGREGATOR - BLOGLINES.............................................................. 16
SETTING UP A FEED IN BLOGLINES ....................................................................................................... 16
VIEWING YOUR FEED IN BLOGLINES.................................................................................................... 19
WHERE DO YOU FIND FEEDS?.................................................................................................... 19
IDEAS TO GET YOU STARTED...................................................................................................... 21
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING AND RSS........................................................................................................ 21
WHAT IS SOCIAL BOOKMARKING?........................................................................................................ 21
HOW IT WORKS? ................................................................................................................................... 22
BLOGGING ANDRSS.............................................................................................................................. 25
WHAT IS A BLOG? .................................................................................................................................. 25
COMMENTS IN BLOGS ............................................................................................................................ 27
WIKIS AND...