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Suzanne Cadwell ITS-Teaching and Learning University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Updated on 2008-11-12
Created on 2008-04-03
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Play as Webslides
How do keep up-to-date on developments in your field?
Listserv subscriptions? Periodic visits to web pages? Table of contents mailings for journals in your field?
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Format for frequently (or irregularly) updated web content. Could complement your use of bookmarks, listservs, and social networking sites.
RSS Readers
Also referred to as aggregators. Included in most recent browser versions.
Web-based RSS Aggregation Services
Helpful if you use multiple computers.
Finding RSS feeds for scholarly publications
Some subscription databases include RSS feeds for individual journals and for custom searches.
Provides RSS feeds for searches and for individual journals. To find the RSS for a particular journal, click the Publications link and either browse or search for that publication. Can subscribe to a feed without having to create an individual account in EBSCO.
Elsevier and partner publications. Provides RSS feeds for searches and for individual journals. Can subscribe to a feed without having to create an individual account.
Provides RSS feeds for searches and for individual journals. Can subscribe to a feed without having to create an individual account.
Journals in Higher Education (JIHE) is dedicated to providing a listing and description of journals in higher education; especially, those that focus on higher education pedagogy. JIHE is multi-disciplinary and international in scope with a special focus on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
Higher Education News
"A partnership between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University to create a forum for comments and discussion about articles from the Tomorrow’s Professor Mailing List and about general issues concerning higher education."
Multimedia
Instructions for building an RSS address for a particular tag or user. You can join several tags with the plus sign.
"Explores cultural and educational media (podcasts, videos, online courses, etc.) that’s freely available on the web, and that makes learning dynamic, productive, and fun. We sift through all the media, highlight the good and jettison the bad, and centralize it in one place."
Other web services and applications
Facebook publishes RSS feeds for your notifications, friends' statuses, and friends' posted items.
21 items | 131 visits
Suzanne Cadwell ITS-Teaching and Learning University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Updated on 2008-11-12
Created on 2008-04-03
Category: Computers & Internet
URL: