Subscribe to your professor’s feed…by making one
I discovered a little known treasure today. FeedYes can make an RSS feed out of any website so you can use this for professors who insist you check their website on a regular basis.
FeedYes is a free service that requires registration. Setting up a feed is very easy, you just input the url address and a feed is created that you can add to any reader. Not all websites will work with this, there has to be so many links, but usually if a professor requires students to check his or her website often, there will a good enough amount of content. I was able to successfully create a feed for my mom’s website (who’s a marketing professor) so now I’ll get know when she updates her site.
Mmm I should probably start using this!! Such a good idea.
[...] Subscribe to Your Professors’ Feeds – By Making One Sydney suggests making an RSS feed of your Prof’s website – so you can get immediate notice whenever he or she updates it. Great advice! [...]
That is very smart especially for those who refuses to use better scripts for blogging etcetera
RSS is a brilliant invention. I use it for so many things. I think I would now be lost without it
@Anjela: I definitely agree. I love my RSS feeds!
@Nan: For a majority of professors, I don’t think it’s a matter of refusal, but a matter of ignorance. Many make awful websites in Frontpage and haven’t even heard of RSS. Too bad for us.