1. Using Google’s RSS Reader
Skills: subscribe to feeds, read feeds
IT concepts: none
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2. Where does this topic fit?
Internet concepts
Applications (RSS)
Technology
Implications
Internet skills
Application development
Content creation

3. Subscribing to an RSS feed
Look for the RSS
subscription icon

4. Subscribe using Google Reader

5. Google RSS reader screen
View all items
Bold: unread
Select one feed
Left column:
subscriptions
Right column: received items (expand by hitting the Enter key)

6. Google Reader screen with item expanded
Click the title to view the full item
Either the first few lines or the entire post may be displayed, depending upon the was the feed is set.

7. Google RSS reader keyboard shortcuts
m: mark as read
n: next item
p: previous item
enter: toggle extended/list view
space bar: scroll down
More shortcuts

8. For podcasts, install a stand alone
RSS reader like

9. If you have not seen it, watch …
Short video on RSS

10. A few questions

11. What happens when you click on the Google Reader Add a Subscription button?
How do you unsubscribe from an RSS feed when using Google Reader?
We discussed several handy keyboard shortcuts. What does the s key do?

12. Using Google’s RSS Reader
Skills: subscribe to feeds, read feeds
IT concepts: none
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.