1. Using RSS Readers in Education: The Google Reader

2. Introductions What do you teach? Do you use RSS now?

3. Who Here Reads Newspapers?

4. News Story Syndication Story is written Story is sent to “the wire” Papers pick up ‘feed’ off the wire Story appears here

5. Syndication

6. Appears in many papers

7. RSS is like reading newspaper Lots of newspapers!

8. What is RSS? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication

9. From “ Push ” to “ Pull ”

10. RSS in Plain English http://snipurl.com/1w8wi

11. “My” Google Reader

12. Types of Information RSS Can Bring to You News Headlines News Search Results Organizational News & Updates Clinical Guidelines Grant Opportunities Journal Table of Contents Web Searches Web 2.0 –Blogs –Blog Search Results –Del.icio.us –Flickr Groups –Wikis –Youtube –more …

13. Examples of RSS Feeds: NIH Grants

14. Examples of RSS Feeds: Blogs

15. Examples of RSS Feeds: Pubmed Search

16. Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader

17. Google Reader Sign in with free account

18. RSS Feed: Subscribing 1. Find a feed. 2. Find the RSS link. 3. Copy the URL or link. 4. Go to Google Reader. 5. Click on Add Subscription. 6. Paste in the link. 7. Organize the new feed into your folders or subject structure.

19. Subscribing Some pages offer buttons you can just click on to add a feed. This allows you to skip steps 2-6!

20. Step 1 (Find Webpage) Google News Search

21. Step 2 (Find RSS Link)

22. Step 3 (Copy Link) or This skips steps 4-6

23. Step 4 (Go to Reader)

24. Step 5 (Add Feed) Click on Add subscription This expands to give you space to paste the URL.

25. Step 6 (Paste Link) Paste the URL in the box, then click ADD.

26. Step 7 (Sort Feed) The feed might look like this Manage subscriptions allow you to group feeds

27. Step 7 (Sort Feed) Choose a topic folder or create a new folder. TIP: When you view a folder, you see the newest items for the topic all integrated together.

28. Other Neat Things to Do With RSS Environmental scanning and market research Get weather reports, daily cartoons, sports scores … Feed from social bookmarking sites like http://del.icio.us Get trends on your feeds –Items per day –Your reading trends

29. “My” Google Reader

30. Using RSS Personally & Professionally

31. Credits: Britt Watwood, VCU “Using RSS Personally and Professionally” Patricia F. Anderson, U. Mich “RSS Demystified” Perter Bromberg, SJRLC