Using Rss

Slide 1: Using RSS Readers in Education: The Google Reader

Slide 2: Introductions • What do you teach? • Do you use RSS now?

Slide 3: Who Here Reads Newspapers?

Slide 4: News Story Syndication to Pa ’ nt ‘fe pe off se re” ed rs th is w i pi e w ry e ck i to t h up re S “ Story is written Story appears here

Slide 5: Syndication

Slide 6: Syndication Appears in many papers

Slide 7: Reading Newspapers

Slide 8: RSS is like reading newspaper • Lots of newspapers!

Slide 9: What is RSS? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication

Slide 10: From “Push” to “Pull”

Slide 11: RSS in Plain English http://snipurl.com/1w8wi

Slide 12: “My” Google Reader

Slide 13: Types of Information RSS Can Bring to You • News Headlines • Web 2.0 • News Search Results – Blogs – Blog Search Results • Organizational News & – Del.icio.us Updates – Flickr Groups • Clinical Guidelines – Wikis • Grant Opportunities – Youtube • Journal Table of – more … Contents • Web Searches

Slide 14: Examples of RSS Feeds: NIH Grants

Slide 15: Examples of RSS Feeds: Blogs

Slide 16: Examples of RSS Feeds: Pubmed Search

Slide 17: Google Reader • http://www.google.com/reader

Slide 18: Google Reader • Sign in with free account

Slide 19: 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.

Slide 20: Subscribing • Some pages offer buttons you can just click on to add a feed. • This allows you to skip steps 2-6!

Slide 21: Step 1 (Find Webpage) • Google News Search

Slide 22: Step 2 (Find RSS Link)

Slide 23: Step 3 (Copy Link) or This skips steps 4-6

Slide 24: Step 4 (Go to Reader)

Slide 25: Step 5 (Add Feed) • Click on Add subscription • This expands to give you space to paste the URL.

Slide 26: Step 6 (Paste Link) • Paste the URL in the box, then click ADD.

Slide 27: Step 7 (Sort Feed) The feed might look like this Manage subscriptions allow you to group feeds

Slide 28: 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.

Slide 29: 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

Slide 30: “My” Google Reader

Slide 31: Using RSS Personally & Professionally

Slide 32: Credits: Britt Watwood, VCU “Using RSS Personally and Professionally” Patricia F. Anderson, U. Mich “RSS Demystified” Perter Bromberg, SJRLC