Nanuet pd rss
- 1. Nanuet Professional Development Technology Cheat Sheet RSS Feeds RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. RSS Feeds let content producers easily send their information and users to easily receive information. Think of subscribing to RSS Feeds as a magazine subscription. Instead of going to the newsstand everyday to check for the latest publications the magazines are sent directly to you when new magazines or content is created. RSS Feeds are a time saver, it might take you an hour to look through 10 websites the traditional way but you can look through 10 websites with an RSS Reader in 15 minutes. For example if I read a blog about knitting but the person who writes the blog only updates it every once and a while I can put the RSS Feed of the blog into an RSS Feed Reader and whenever the publisher writes a new post I will be notified in my Reader. I do not have to constantly go and check the blog for new information. It works the same with news sites. If I follow the RSS Feed for the New York Times Breaking News I can receive the latest updates with out constantly checking the website. RSS Feeds help people organize the abundance of information they may seek on the web. RSS can help students and teachers organize research and keep up to date with current information. A targeted search can be set up through RSS Feeds, you can set up a feed to forward you the latest news on the oil spill or stem cell research whenever it is published almost anywhere online. Google Reader, Bloglines and Netvibes are the three most popular readers. Google Reader and Bloglines are good readers if you just want text. Netvibes is more of a visual reader. My tutorial will go through Google Reader. 1) Navigate your browser to http://www.google.com/reader/. 2) Most websites, blogs and podcasts will have orange RSS Feed subscription buttons. Clicking on these buttons will give you a link for the subscription feed (http://feeds.nytimes.com/nyt/rss/Technology). You will plug this feed into a Reader program to keep track of your subscriptions. 3) Some browsers like Internet Explorer below will notify you when you are on a webpage that has an RSS Feed. If I click the orange button in the yellow box below I will get the link for the NYT Technology Feed.
- 3. 6) Click on Add a Subscription in the top left to put in an RSS Feed for a website you wish to follow. 7) I put in RSS Feeds for a website, YouTube channel, podcast and blog to show the mix of media you can follow. The bottom left lists my subscriptions and the right panel shows the mix of posts coming in from each subscription. I can choose to sort by newest or oldest. 8) You can click on an item to read a snippet of the post or a full post if it is short. You can choose to click through to the original item or Star the item to bookmark it Like the item for future reference, Share with friends with or with out note, email, mark as Unread and Add Tags to easily find the post.