301 RSS: The New Learning Pipeline Brent Schlenker, The elearning Guild Produced by Implementing e-learning 2.0 Technologies
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e-learning 2.0: Its BIGGER Than you Might Think! blogs ~ wikis ~ RSS culture sharing security job roles measurement HR guidelines user-generated valuing creativity breaking down silos slaughtering sacred cows re-thinking content consumption Page 7
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5able {pronounced five-able} searchable editable linkable taggable feedable Page 13
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The real story is the much larger population of Unaware RSS users who consume RSS syndicated content on personalized start pages. 27% of online users consume third-party content on these pages without knowing that RSS is the enabling technology. Universal Standard icon for RSS Page 23
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aggregator RSS is the most significant advance in the fundamental architecture of the web allows someone to link not just to a page, but to subscribe to it, with notification every time that [content] changes. O reillynet.com Page 33
Consumption & Distribution A: Future Windows to include RSS support MSNBC - Jun 24 2005 Page 34
Yahoo Whitepaper Awareness of RSS is quite low among Internet users. 12% of users are aware of RSS, and 4% have knowingly used RSS. 27% of Internet users consume RSS syndicated content on personalized start pages (e.g., My Yahoo!, My MSN) without knowing that RSS is the enabling technology. 28% of Internet users are aware of podcasting, but only 2% currently subscribe to podcasts. Even tech-savvy Aware RSS Users prefer to access RSS feeds via user-friendly, browser-based experiences (e.g., My Yahoo!, Firefox, My MSN). My Yahoo! has the highest awareness and use of any RSSenabled product. Persistent Search (automated) One of the most powerful applications of RSS is called persistent search -- subscribing to the RSS feed of a particular search engine's results for your search terms. This will allow your feed reader to check every time you login for new search results, deliver them to your inbox as soon as they are available, and otherwise sit quietly waiting until new results become available. It's a great way to stay up-to-the-moment about your issues of interest, without performing searches manually. -Marshal Kirkpatrick, from marshallk.com Page 35
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Nobody can tell you what the matrix is, you have to experience it for yourself. Morpheus, The Matrix YES, but Page 39
YOU have to CREATE it for YOUrself! FIRST! 2000 2002 2006 2008 2001 80 Page 40
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Setting up a good suite of feeds can transform inefficient, slow and frustrating research into a powerfully different experience. I believe the best way to be a publicly visible knowledge worker today is to use RSS to pull in emerging information about your field, then use Social Bookmarking to archive the key items that come through the feeds and then use that archived and emerging information to blog about your subject of interest. RSS, an unexciting acronym for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication, will rock your world: pull all your web content into one location rapid notification of new information learn more spend less time surfing aimlessly A growing number of organizations are using syndicated "feeds" to deliver news and other content; when you open your feed reader inbox, it will automatically visit each feed you are subscribed to and deliver any new headlines to your inbox. No more forgetting the web addresses of your favorite sites, visiting sites that haven't been updated, or getting news sent to you from sources you haven't requested. That means more and better information in less time. You'll never want to go back to surfing the web manually again. Page 42
What if every course was simply a blank template? And content simply flowed into that template the moment that content was created or changed? What if every learner interested in that topic could be notified every time content changed or was added? XML.com: RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it s not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the recent changes page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way. RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them. Page 43