I have always shied away from these as I wasn’t sure how to use one.
Having returned from NECC with dozens of websites bookmarked (most of them blogs) and having discovered CommonCraft videos, I thought it was time to proceed.
Step 1: Watch “RSS in Plain English” here or here
Step 2: Sign up to Google Reader here (note, I must have signed up to at least a dozen different web sites over the past 3 weeks!)
Step 3: Visit blogs and web sites and click on the orange icons 
to add their RSS feed to Google Reader. In some cases I just copied and pasted the blog web address into Google Reader.
I have to admit, that I’m not that thrilled with this. Sure, the web now comes to me instead of me going all over the place, but the way they are presented in Google Reader is nowhere near as nice as on the actual web blogs.
Google Reader blog.
How Sue from the Edublogger uses RSS feeds.
Here is a quick RSS set up guide by Will Richardson rssquickguide. It also talks about using RSS with students.
And, “RSS Is Changing the Web – How Will It Change Our Classrooms?” by Quentin D’Souza can be found here rsslinks.
Have any tips on RSS? Post a comment.
