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=__Using RSS on School Websites__= RSS on websites can be very helpful to deliver information to parents and students regularly. It can be used by an educator to gather resources and hand feed the data through a school website. Using this method is a safer approach to surfing the web than having students searching for data on their own. It can also add traffic to a website so that parents and students will catch updates and information that is going in the school. Teachers can add work and projects that students are doing right to the home pages of the school sight so that they are easily found and read by all. Educators who blog lessons, homework, and useful tips can easily have a linked page with an RSS feed and then direct parents and students to check it regularly for news and updates within their classroom, improving class communication.

Here are some examples of using RSS on a School Website

Hart-Ransom Charter News Jones High School

=__Adding RSS to a Website__= Adding RSS to a website can be very easy with the right type of web tools. Using Apple iWeb is very simple. It is a low cost webpage builder with a built in RSS widget aggregator, but you have to have an apple operating system to use it. Some web development tools maybe more complicated to use (not to mention get very costly) and you may have to find code for a widget and cut and paste it into the page.

How to add an RSS Aggregator to a website Script for RSS RSS code generator

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