One of the principal developments of Web 2.0 is the development RSS, or Real Simple Sindication.\u00a0 Basically RSS is the content, stripped of most design, from sites such as blogs and other sites that have frequently updated content.\u00a0 This allows people with RSS readers to view only the content they haven’t already read from a large number of sites in one location.\u00a0 This becomes a serious time saver once you’ve started reading blogs and using other Web 2.0 sites such as Flickr and Delicious.<\/p>\n
One of these RSS readers, Netvibes<\/a>, is particularly good for language learners, as it provides suggestions for RSS feeds based on a location.\u00a0 The user can, for example, provide their location as Bremen, Germany and specify their interests as news and technology.\u00a0 A portal can then be created that includes their Gmail and Facebook along with stories from the German news, the weather in Bremen, and German technology magazines.\u00a0 If the class is blogging as well, the portal can be used to keep track of the other students’ blogs in class.\u00a0 For the instructor, it provides an easy way\u00a0 to structure and view the content being created by students in different locations.<\/p>\n Those interested, feel free to stop down and I’ll show you some examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the principal developments of Web 2.0 is the development RSS, or Real Simple Sindication.\u00a0 Basically RSS is the content, stripped of most design, from sites such as blogs and other sites that have frequently updated content.\u00a0 This allows … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[66,67],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-portals","tag-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}