Learned about RSS feeds recently and I have to say I'm impressed with the technology. All you have to do is set up an aggregator (I chose Google Reader) and learn how to subscribe to a website's rss feed and you're set. Now I can check for updates on websites by going to just one site (Google Reader) instead of all individual sites themselves.
I'm really thinking this could be a great tool for helping students with their research papers. I really want them to immerse themselves into their topics early on so they come to a greater understanding of what mastery of a subject is and how much it impacts their ability to write about it. Having them select sites that they can be fed information from to stay on top of an issue should be a great way of providing them with updates on the most current information on their topics. (A great way of accomplishing the NETS-S standard of information fluency.) Hopefully it will encourage some of them to try to use RSS feeds in other ways as well.
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