Reflections at Pi

I wanted to pick something easy and quick to teach. So, while I’m willing to teach lots of different tools, it fell to the RSS training as a default. Quick, dirty, and easy. I snagged David and Becca as willing test subjects. I taught Becca, then David. I think David benefited from my learning curve with Becca. (But Becca now has a gmail account.) David asked me a good question, “Other people have come to me selling this RSS brochure. Why do I need it?” The reality is that he may not. He may be someone who needs to have the news in newpaper (ink and all) format. He may hate having new feeds pile up or ignore them for weeks at a time. I told him what I use it for, a mix of personal and academic and that the academic may vary based on our unit of study. The point is, that now he and Becca know what an RSS feed is and how to subscribe to one. They may not need it now, but, if that changes, they know where to find it.