Teacher training - Primary school

1. Teacher training - Primary school
2. Fronter - a first meeting
3. My Today Page
   1. The personal toolbar
   2. The room selector
   3. The contact card
   4. Today-page/Start-page/My page
   5. Customise the Today-page/Start-page/My page!
   6. RSS
4. Where do we write in Fronter - the built in text editor
5. Create a new room
6. Room
7. The room is ready
8. Case study: Working with Unit 4 - Autobiography
9. Case study - From Pages to Learning paths
10. Booking a resource
11. Parent / Carer Login
12. Handy Hints
13. Version control

RSS

RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or pod casts. Users of RSS content use programs called feed 'readers' or 'aggregators': the user 'subscribes' to a feed by supplying to their reader a link to the feed; the reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.

Often you will see the text RSS or this symbol:

You can now have RSS in the Information Central tool on the Today page. Here we have an interesting RSS-feed:

By clicking this link you get an overview of possible RSS-feed. Right-click on the wanted link:

Choose Copy shortcut from the drop-down menu.

You will need to subscribe using the following screens.

Then click 1 then 2, paste the shortcut and then click Save.

Here we have added the RSS feed for the BBC. This is how it will look like on the Today-page:

You can subscribe information of your own interest such as sports and weather. If you have more than one source it can be handy to show additional information. This is done by customising the RSS feed. Below is an example of RSS articles with Politics from The Daily Star and Weather in England from Yahoo:

RSS on Room-today

RSS feed can be included on the Room-today page by the teacher. By this the teacher can publish interesting articles and make them available for his/her pupils/students from the start page of the room.

Information central

This tool contains several other tools:

When you add this tool to the Today page you can choose which of the "subtools" you want to be displayed:

The tool at the top (here: News) will automatically be displayed on the Today page.

Hint:

Upon selecting both News and Stickies, the stickies will in some sense be protected: In the Information central only the number of stickies will be shown since the News is the first and "active" tool.