As we begin to form our PLNs in class, and start to subscribe to blogs and other pages with RSS feeds, I found the Google Reader Aggregator to be really easy to use. I have subscribed to RSS feeds before, but never really had a reader that I liked, and I never ended up following any feeds for very long. What I like about the Google Reader is that, as we are using Blogger blogs in class, and many of the blogs I found to follow are also on Blogger, these automatically showed up in my Google Reader. In addition, Google Reader recognized some of the other sites I had been to recently that had an RSS feed, and listed them as suggestions.
As the instructional video on RSS feeds told us, an aggregator brings the news and updates to us in one step, without us having to go visit all of our classmates' blogs and our PLN blogs individually. Can't beat that!
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I have also found in Google Reader that you can categorize your RSS feeds (e.g., feeds on technology, news feeds, feeds on Spain or Latin America) so that you can choose which ones you want to see at any one time. I've found that useful if I get overwhelmed and need to eliminate something without reading.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a great feature that would be useful for professional or personal/fun Reader uses. I will look into that.
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