well, having now setup the RSS feed from a database, a particular journal title, I can see that this can be useful for a researcher or someone interested in a particular topic or magaxine, or anything for that matter that will allow this feed to occur.
My biggest concern would be the need to login to somwhere, in this case Bloglines or my Blog itself, to look at these feeds. also, I have to setup the feed for those things I wish to receive. Would a student actually do this, if we wished to set up something whereby we post information of relevance, or at least what WE thought was of relevance, and wanted the student to take notice of.
If there was one single portal to receive all these disparate collections of information, library notices, feeds from databases, email from lecturers...oh, am I talking about Blackboard. Its just what as student said to me yesterday, they wanted their University email account to be more readily accessible, with their other information currently on Blackboard, without needing to navagate into one are of Blackboard then backout to then navigate into another area.
Can I see RSS feeds engaging students? Well yes, I do, but only if the techo's can give them one unified, easily navigated portal. How hard can that be, we seem to be throwing all these supposed great web2.0 functions at people, but we have to zip here and zip there to use them, and creat mutliple passwords and usernames that we end up forgetting who we really are!
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