Five Filters' free RSS to PDF service makes it easy to convert your blog's RSS feed into a printable PDF format. To use the service simply enter your blog's RSS feed url (if you use FeedBurner, you can use the FeedBurner feed) and Five Filters quickly converts the feed into a two column printable PDF. Click here to see the PDF created from this blog's RSS feed. Five Filters' RSS to PDF seems to convert six days worth of items from your RSS feed. Although I didn't do it for the RSS feed I converted, you can customize the title of your PDF to match your blog's title.
Applications for Education
As much as we would like to think that the parents of all of our students are can get online to view our classroom blogs, the truth is that in some districts many parents don't have reliable internet access. RSS to PDF services make it possible for you to quickly convert your blog communication to a paper document that you can mail home or send home with students.
Here are some related resources that may be of interest to you:
Feed Journal - Turn RSS Feeds Into Newspapers
Feed Chronicle - Make Your Own News Page
MeeHive - Your Custom News Homepage
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Turn Your Blog Into a Newsletter With RSS to PDF
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Labels: newsletters, PDF, Rss Aggregation, RSS Feed, Teacher-Parent Communication, Teaching With Technology, Technology Integration
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5 comments:
Now THAT is one cool tool. Funny thing, too. When perusing your pdf newsletter, I discovered several things from your recent blogs that I somehow "skimmed over" in reading them in the RSS. Somehow seeing them in that format just made them seem even more "important." ;)
That's pretty nifty.
What a great blog, thanks!
It’s no wonder you are always on the first page of my Feedly account…you deliver the info I am looking for.
Regards,
Jessica
I love this idea, I was actually just trying to figure out a way to take the information from my own school's technology blog and make it printable for my non-technology teachers.
Great tip, I can print off (it's not easy being green!) copies to send home to parents that have no internet access. Woot!
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