Streaming Contents and RSS Feed in a Pedagogical Environment

A group of university teachers have been developing several contents using streaming technology, since it promotes the support of pedagogical activity as a dynamic resource and due to the fact that is oriented to a model of shared learning contents. Now, a new challenge can be stated: the share and the reutilization of these learning contents. Apart from being an enhanced experience only concerning the sharing of knowledge, it promotes a desired partnership inter/intra-department. In this context the RSS technology introduces a new dimension in the access to streaming media contents. The RSS is a format to syndicate contents enabling users to be aware of new contents that are periodically published. The RSS technology, through the use of RSS Aggregators or RSS Readers, help the user to keep up to date all their favourite information sources that provide their contents as RSS feeds. In the scope of the streaming media contents the definition of RSS feeds enable the students to be up to date of new educational resources that are provided by the teacher. Therefore the students instead of checking the updates that are published in several educational information resources can locally see the new resources that are described and provided in the RSS feed. Some preliminaries results are presented and discussed.