Thing 8, Week 4

RSS feeds; now these are proving to be a fantastic find. I am teaching natural disasters to the class. One topic is a current/recent disaster. I have been using RSS feeds to get the most up to date information and I have been able to impress the students by showing them how to set up their own RSS feeds. We have been following the terrible events in Burma. They are beginning to see that after a disaster, with the breakdown in communications - and a reluctant government, it can take some time for the information to be released. We have mainly used the Shychannel news RSS as the students prefer the shorter news version, but I have been using the Fairfax, ABC and CNN ones as well. A great discovery!