I've been using Twitter to post the homework assignments for my Juvenile groups. Students don´t need to have an account to access the posts. On the first page students just need to type their class number and they can see all the posts related to that class. I add #las54a, #las66, #las75, or #las1B1 to the tweets, which creates a thread for the posts of each class.

Students find this use of Twitter really interesting, but I tell them visiting the site is not mandatory. I tell them to use Twitter in case they miss classes or if they can't remember what the homework was. Several students have mentioned checking it, and I have a couple of students following my posts. This can also be an incentive for me to post links to interesting sites for them, along with the class code.

Now a playlist from grooveshark.com. Embedding seems easy.

I'm trying to embed a playlist.com player with some songs I selected here. I'll try it on Ning, now.

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RSS is exactly what the name states: really simple syndication, a very useful way to collect and aggregate, in one place, all the information you want, about what you want or choose. RSS is useful when you want to be informed about a specific subject without having to visit many sites to check whether they have been updated. For instance, if you have a group of students and each student has a webpage, RSS helps you, sending you each page’s updated info. You can also choose to follow specific news, and be informed if and whenever a certain word appears.