About Olentangy's News Feeds
What is a feed?
A feed is a regularly updated summary of web content. When you subscribe to a website or weblog feed using a feed reader or a browser that supports feeds, you'll receive a summary of news content from that site. You must use a feed reader or feed-enabled browser in order to subscribe to feeds, otherwise when you click on an RSS feed link, your web browser my display a page of unformatted XML code.
What is RSS?
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" and is a feed format. Olentangy news feeds are RSS 2.0.
Using RSS
RSS readers (also known as news aggregators) gather the content from any number of sources that you select and consolidate and display it for you in one convenient location. This means you don't have to visit each site individually to see what's new – you can simply scan the headlines or summaries in your news reader and click to read the full text.
News readers come in two main types: web-based online aggregators and software that you run on your computer. Yahoo and Google both provide customizable news reader through their My Yahoo and Google Reader features. Another popular online aggregator is Bloglines. Aggregator software that runs on your own computer may be a standalone program or may be integrated into a program that you already use, such as Microsoft Outlook and the Mozilla Firefox browser.
Firefox browser showing the Olentangy news feeds.
Subscribing to Olentangy's RSS Feeds
To subscribe to Olentangy's blogs, follow the instructions for your news reader of choice. Commonly, you just need to copy the URL for the XML/RSS link and paste it into your news reader.
Olentangy's RSS Feeds:
- Olentangy's Top News
- Top Olentangy news stories
- http://olentangyschools.net/blog/topnews/?feed=rss2
- Community Messages
- From the superintendent's offic
- http://olentangyschools.net/blog/superintendent/?feed=rss2
- Get the Facts!
- http://olentangyschools.net/blog/communications/?feed=rss2
- What's New on the Web Site
- Items are logged here whenever something is added or changed on the web site
- http://olentangyschools.net/blog/whatsnew/feed/
- Board Meeting Updates
- Notifications of meeting agendas, minutes and board podcasts
- http://olentangyschools.net/blog/whatsnew/category/board_of_education/feed/
- Podcasts of the Board of Education Meetings
- Audio podcasts from the Board of Education meetings are available. Links to the individual audio files are available on the Board Meeting schedule page.
- Use this URL to subscribe to the podcasts through your regular news reader:
http://www.olentangy.k12.oh.us/rss/boe.xml
To subscribe to the board podcasts in iTunes, click here:
- High School and Middle School Announcements Weblogs
- OHMS – http://olentangyschools.net/blog/eagles/feed
- OLMS – http://olentangyschools.net/blog/warriors/feed
- OOMS – http://olentangyschools.net/blog/trailblazers/feed
- OSMS – http://olentangyschools.net/blog/scouts/feed
- OHS – http://olentangyschools.net/blog/braves/feed
- OLHS – http://olentangyschools.net/blog/patriots/?feed=rss2
- OOHS – http://olentangyschools.net/blog/pioneers/?feed=rss2