RSS FeedsRSS Feeds

RSS Feeds

• Subscribing via G Reader • Subscribing via Bloglines

• Different things you can do with feeds• Google news and Blog searches• Wiki feeds• A few interesting things you can do

with feeds

I am mainly using Firefox and google reader on a Mac. I tried using IE 6 butit did not work as well as Firefox for windows.

IE 7 seems a lot better for rss feeds.

Common Craft has a great introduction to RSS Feedsthat I will use as a basis for looking at RSS feeds.

Link to Video

Common Craft has a great introduction to RSS Feedsthat I will use as a basis for looking at RSS feeds.

Link to Video

Need to

• Sign Up for a Reader

• Online ReadersBloglinesG ReaderPageflakes

• Add Subscriptions to the Reader

•Offline ReadersVienna (mac)Blogbridge (mac/pc)

Go to a Blogsite

Select reader

Add to G Reader

Login or Create Account

Feed is added to Reader

Organize Feeds into folders

Go to next site

You Could also add feed by copying feed location

Get feed url

Add Subscription

Repeat until you have the feeds

SubscribingSubscribing

Via BloglinesVia Bloglines

Go to a Blog

Click On Feed Icon

Subscribe using Bloglines

Select the feed

Click on Subscribe

Feed is now in Bloglines

Like GReader you can organize with folders

SearchesSearches

You can continually search news

Add your search terms

Click on RSS or Atom and copy link location

Add the subscription-I could have just clicked on the link and it would have brought

the subscription directly into G Reader

Or Blogs

Select RSS or Atom

Subscription Added

Keep track of Wikis

Subscribe then add to a reader

Wiki Changes

Add RSS info to a Blog

Add RSS info to a Blog

Adding a G Reader widget to a blog

With the Blog an News search

1 Minute later without the searches

Manage Subscriptions

Make the Folder Public

View Public Page

View Feeds in One Document

Or

Set up the Clip

Copy and Paste script into your Blog Post and

the feed shows up on the Blog

Since the Assessment folder is public you could

also copy the feed

Use a tool such as Web Slides to show the feed in

a different manner

Add the feed url...decide on the look...copy code

Add an RSS slide show to the Blog

Add a Grazr widget to a

blog or Pageflakes

I have all the feeds in

GReader So I went to manage

subscriptions

Selected the feed then dragged it from the G Reader window to the Grazr window

Repeated the same process

Once the feeds were in place I

selected create a widget

Customize the widget.

Copy code or add to page flakes

In Pageflakes