I am, and have been for a long time an RSS feed junkie (even my colleagues make fun of my addiction). On a more serious note, it means that all the information I need, personalised professional development is delivered to me (to you, to you phone / email inbox). Most sites have RSS feeds, the BBC, DfE, most blogs and if they dont you can make feeds out of almost any content.
I use Feedly to curate my feeds (it is so very easy to drop in a new feed and categorise them) but prefer Feedme to read them, share them and bookmark them.
Today I learnt how to create RSS Twitter feeds combining Twitter widgets and Google scripts. I created one to follow the FFT handle @FFTEdu so that I kept up to date with their blog posts, particularly on GCSE accountability, here is the FFTEdu feed. Add this to your RSS reader / Outlook inbox for all their tweets. A second for the education community, a fire-hose of everything tagged with #SLTchat. I am not sure if any straight thinking school leader needs that much #sltchat, but if you do not want to miss anything, and you dont want to search Twitter, get it delivered – here is the #SLTchat feed. This is what you would get.
Tweets about “#sltchat”
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Top man! I must brush up my RSS skills. Will Rt tomorrow.
Glad its useful. It will be a fire hose of information. Certainly found the FFTEdu feed very useful.
Glad I’m not the only one still loving the RSS!
Since Google killed off Reader I’ve been using feedly, but not 100% happy. Can you give me a one sentence version of why Feedme is better?