For session on RSS and Google Reader at Teaching and Learning with Technology Institute, June 2009

1. Using RSS
Readers
in Education:
The
Google
Reader

2. Who here is
currently using
RSS ?

3. How About
Newspapers?
Who Here Reads
Newspapers?

4. News Story Syndication
Story is written Story appears here

5. Syndication

6. Syndication
Appears in
many papers

7. Reading
Newspapers

8. Lots of Newspapers!!!

9. What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication

10. From “Push” to “Pull”

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

12. “My”
Google
Reader

13. • Activity
– Set up own Google
Reader account
– Find several personally
pertinent websites and
subscribe
– Build over week as we
discuss blogs and other
sites

14. Other Aggregators

15. Using RSS
Personally &
Professionally