Mary Harrsch writes about RSS: The Next Killer App For Education. She gives a number of interesting hypothetical examples of RSS use in education, including:
Example 3. You are the superintendent of a school district with 49 schools. Each school maintains a Web site, but it is very time-consuming to visit each site periodically to review each school's news and events. The schools begin to post their news to a weblog that is incorporated into each school's Web site, much like Bryant Elementary School in Seattle, Washington. The weblog tool also produces an RSS news feed. You install a news reader and subscribe to each news feed. Now, each day you can quickly review all the news and events at each school in one place without having to visit all 49 Web sites.
Posted by Karl
June 17, 2003 07:38 AM