This slide teaches you what is aggregator and how to use aggregator for your PLN

1. PART III: AGGREGATOR
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2. WHAT IS AGGREGATOR?
• Aggregator is ususally a web site or computer
software that aggregates a specific type of
information(RSS feeds) from multiple online sources.
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3. WHAT IS RSS?
RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a technology that allows web users
to keep track up of their favorite websites.
Usually when you
click on this button
This box shows up for
you to choose your news
reader/ aggregator
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4. WHY ARE AGGREGATORS SO GREAT? THEY
BRING INFORMATION TO YOU…
• Why go to a site, when
WIKIS
you can bring the
SOCIAL
NETWORK BLOGS
content to you!
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• Let’s look at
AGGREGATOR examples:
• Netvibes
SOCIAL • feedly
NEWS
CONTENT
• NewsBlur
• My Yahoo
TWITTER • PageFlakes
• Protopage
• Which E?
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5. WHAT DOES AN AGGREGATOR LOOK LIKE?
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