Jun

13

An easy RSS feed reader

Filed Under Social Studies 

As the year winds down and I spend more time preparing my students for exams, I’ve been a little startled just how little some of my students know about the larger world around them. They don’t seem to know major events in recent Canadian or world news. Even worse, a lot of them lack the motivation to find out. Since I can’t leave this situation the way it is, I’ve been musing about how to change it. How do I get them to find out the key events in the world without it seeming like much work?

Having the students set up and check some sort of RSS feed seemed the most obvious solution. Naturally, some of my less motivated students will think this way of checking the news is too much work. Being determined to leave them without excuse, I’ve recently disovered a cool little tool that allows you to set up and customize your own RSS feed, from whatever news sources you want, and embed it in your website or blog. Naturally, it comes from the folks at Google.

I’ve played with a few similar tools from other sources, but this one seems to be the easiest and most flexible to use. Maybe it can make the difference for my not-so-worldy-aware students. We shall see.

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