RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’ and helps you to save time by keeping up to date with the important updates at your favourite websites. Instead of you visiting each website, you just go to your Google Reader page where these updates will have been fed using an RSS feed.
Confused? This blog post explains the basics of using RSS. I prefer this short video as an effective, simple, albeit cheesy explanation of how RSS feeds work. Basically, you need to direct your RSS feeds to an aggregator and Google Reader is one of the best. All this means is that you can read your favourite webpages at your Google Reader page instead of the actual website usually visited. This video explains how. Here’s a written explanation. You can create a Google Reader acount here.
Please post a comment if you have need for more explanation OR if you managed to sort this out and successfully have a Google Reader account. Maybe you will add this blog as your first RSS feed?
NB Google Reader can be accessed at DET schools.
2 responses to “How do I use RSS feeds and Google Reader?”
Ben Jones
February 4th, 2010 at 22:07
Totally agree, RSS brings what you want to you without going looking for it.
A tip for your teams TaLe gives out an RSS feed on saved searches so a PDHPE teacher can save a search for all PDHPE resources in stage 4 & 5, then add the RSS to their reader and wait for the updates to roll in.
Ben 🙂
Daniel Peiser
February 5th, 2010 at 00:46
I love using Google Reader, I have more than 80 subscriptions and one of them is the feed from my Facebook notifications! 🙂
I believe that Google Reader is still the most convenient and effective way of reading blog posts, but Facebook could become a better way, for newspapers, magazines and bloggers, to reach a bigger audience, thanks to its better social features that hundreds of millions of people are already familiar to.
Here is a short tutorial (it’s really simple) on how to make Facebook your News Reader, check it out and give it a try!
http://www.bealoud.com/social-media/facebook-news-reader/