The Edublogger post about using RSS appeared recently and it got me thinking about how I used to track the blogposts of my previous class bloggers. These blogs were set up with the help of David Gilmour from East Lothian Council. I had no knowledge of RSS (hadn’t even heard of it!), but I soon discovered that it was possible to track the children’s new blog posts by visiting certain East Lothian blogs. The sidebar would show information about the latest ‘edubuzz’ posts … just like the example below.
Latest eduBuzz Posts
Happily, I’ve now discovered how to use ‘Google Reader’ and today I found that Stuart - 4th from the top on the list above - from last year’s P7 class decided to put on a new blogpost (10 months since his last one!). You can read his post here:
‘Sorry, not been in touch much because couldn’t find a computer to get on. LHS is the best high school ever people talk about getting your head getting flushed down the lavvy isn’t even true.The work isn’t too hard and you get 2 go up the street 4 u lunch and get anything you want up there. Me and Marc were in a talent show but him and Iona never won and I never won so boohoo. High school is really great but some subjects like french, english/language, R.M.E, H.F.T (writing part) are all a little boring. P.E is brilliant but if you pick it 4 2 nd year it isn’t always physical sometimes it can be writing, Tech is excellent too but same again it’s not always practical work some is writing. High school isn’t scary but it is FUN. You barely even get lost because after a few weeks you know your way round but I will admit sometimes it will just slip your mind where your going. And you’ll need 2 get use 2 not skiving out class saying yuo need the toilet only sometimes if you are really bursting or if you have got a toilet pass which lets you go to the loo any time you can only get one if you have a medical problem. And you don’t get golden time up here. HUB cards are used to buy food at the hub but if you lose it you need 2 go 2 the front office and ask 4 a temperary card until they order a new one. Mine broke at first then I got a new one and I lost that one. I am absolutely tired so am going 2 ma bed cause it’s 5 in the morning and am at a sleepover so catch you later.’
I really appreciate Stuart’s post …. the incentive for writing the post is obviously to give a message to the present P7 class that they shouldn’t fear moving on to High School. I’ll make a point of sharing the post with the intended audience as soon as we return to school!
Meanwhile - what is Feedburner?? ….. and what is twitter about?? 
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Hi Margaret, You know how sometimes a feed might include not quite the info you want? Maybe it includes complete posts, and all you want is a 20-word summary. Or there are too many entries. Feedburner is a black box that helps solve this kind of problem. Give it a feed to “burn” and it’ll create a new feed, with a Feedburner address. The big difference is will then offer you lots of things you can do with the feed. You might want a snippet of HTML to display the feed in a certain way, for example.
And as for Twitter, that’s another story…
Thanks for that info, David. When this Dissertation thing is over, I’m going to really enjoy finding out more about all this stuff … Twitter’s at the top of the list
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