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Google Reader

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Want to keep up with what is latest and greatest in your field? Are there current events you’d like to have pulled from a variety of sources to share with your students? Come and learn how Google Reader an RSS Aggregator can help you to organize your professional (and personal) reading! 

 

Stay up to date

Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content. Whether a site updates daily or monthly, you can be sure that you won't miss a thing.

Simplify your reading experience

Google Reader shows you all your favorite sites in one convenient place. It's like your inbox, for the web.

Discover new content

Millions of sites publish feeds with their latest updates, and our built in feed search makes it easy to find new content that interests you.

http://www.google.com/help/reader/tour.html

 

What IS RSS and What does it do?

"RSS in Plain English" from http://blip.tv/file/205570

 

 

Educational Applications (adapted from http://fullmeasure.co.uk/Coming_of_age_v1-2.pdf)

Professional Development - find out about anything you want to know, read experts opinions, connect with peers

Time-Saving  - Read when you want

News - get the latest breaking news on any subject by subscribing to a key word news feed.  (How do you do this?  Go to http://www.google.com/news, type in your search, click Search, scroll down on the left - click on RSS and subscribe)

 

Find a blog to read

NY Times List by Subject - http://www.nytimes.com/ref/technology/blogs_101.html

TIME 25 Best Blogs of 2009 - http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1879276,00.html

 

Some other places to start -

Mark Alhness- an elementary teacher

Tim Lauer- an elementary principal

Bob Sprankle- an elementary technology integrator

Vicki Davis- a middle school teacher

Jen Wagner- about collaborative online learning projects

Sharon Peters- a high school technology teacher

Dr. Cheri Toledo- an education professor . many resources, blogs,

 

Science Friday Podcast

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=4822271

History Hints Podcast

http://www2.ccboe.com/publicinfo/historyhints.cfm

 

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