Tim's Blog

Hey sue. It certainly can be tricky. I've found with quite a lot of people it realistically takes a 1/2 hour one-to-one session finding relevant feeds for them and getting a personal homepage set-up before they start understanding what is going on.

I've been trying to design a paper based exercise to explore how RSS works (sort of like an interactive group work version of the common craft videos) as I found doing a paper based exercise with tagging (using luggage labels and a selection of documents grabbed of shelves around the organisations) worked really well in getting people to grasp tagging. I've not however, yet, found a way of making that paper based exercise straightforward enough (perhaps RSS just is rather tricky to conceptualise unless you understand some of the technology behind it?).