Using Pagecasts to Demonstrate RSS

In the past, when I've been talking to schools about blogging I've skated over the topic of RSS a bit. Newbies don't tend to get it and don't see it as a major selling point. For a long time now, Pageflakes has been my favourite web desktop. As well as all the engaging content you can drag on to your page, you can use it as a perfectly good feed reader. With this in mind, I set up a bunch of blogs for some teachers in Liverpool to try out and thought that rather than putting loads of links to each other's blogs in the sidebar I'd set up a public Pageflakes page (known as a Pagecast) that collected all the feeds together on a single page: http://www.pageflakes.com/john21/9409516 OK, so these schools haven't exactly been quick off the mark in trying their blogs, but you get the idea. Gold star to Booker Junior School for having a go! The point is that the page automatically updates whenever anyone writes a post via the magic of RSS - thus, hopefully demonstrating one of its simple uses.