So I decided to make RSS a part of my class from the first day. My students keep a learning blog throughout the semester, and I tied my RSS activities into it. I required that my students start a Google Reader page and link to at least three different sites that interested them. As proof, they needed to either print or email a screenshot of their main Google Reader page. Throughout the semester, they'll have to respond in their blogs to several writing prompts about the sites they're monitoring and how they might use these sites to find inspiration for class writing projects.

I used an in-class explanation that pretty much copied the RSS in Plain English segment. I also referred them to the YouTube page and gave them the URL. I got no resistance from the class at all. They could all see what we were trying to do with the assignment and how RSS could help them with their writing. Honestly, I was expecting at least one or two technophobes in a class that size (19 students). Not a one. They were all willing to give it a shot. And so far, nobody's had any trouble getting their page set up. That was the other problem that I was expecting.

So I guess I'm bragging at how well my RSS kickoff went. :) I'm curious to know what everyone else's experience was like (for those of us on the RSS grant).

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