IR 306: US- Central American Relations

• Please sit with your chosen task force• Please go to http://libguides.sfsu.edu/ir306• Signing into your IR 306 ilearn course site

might help too.

Country + Task Force: Use iLearn

Workshop Tasks

1. Set up your RSS feed reader.2. RSS Feeds from the IR 306 Starter pack (

http://libguides.sfsu.edu/ir306). 3. Add the Tico Times RSS feed. 4. Star news headlines in your feed reader. 5. Add news sources from your country. 6. Find feeds available through Library

databases and add them to your feed reader.

RSS in Plain English

http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

Active Passive

Directed Searching Monitoring

Un-directed Browsing “Being Aware”

Searching = Active + Directed

Browsing = Active + Undirected

Leisa Thompson | The Ann Arbor News, http://www.mlive.com/annarbornews/business/index.ssf/2008/11/borders_decision_not_to_sell_i.html

Monitoring = Passive + Directed

“Being Aware” = Passive + Undirected

If you are always signed into facebook

Social News Sites

MONITORING? …… OR………….• You choose the “content

providers”– Your “friends”– Those you follow on Twitter,

etc. • You “follow” people and

their stories when you are online

“BEING AWARE”……….?• Your “friends” decide what

you read, and where it should come from.

• Stories and news can appear in any shared space online (Facebook, etc.)

NY Times Front Page Today

NY Times RSS Feed Page

Google Reader Headline View

Academic Search Complete Search

Custom RSS Feed from Academic Search Premier

Custom Feed for Latin America Monitor

Library Database Feeds

EbscoHost• Better display of results in

RSS feed reader• Email Alerts1. Country reports from

Business Source Complete2. Subject searching from

Academic Search Complete3. GalleryWatch CRS Reports

Proquest• RSS feed links to results

pages• Email Alerts1. EIU Viewswire2. OxResearch3. ABI/Inform Global or

ABI/Inform Complete4. Proquest Newsstand

Searching in a Proquest Database

EIU Viewswire Feed for Costa Rica