The video mentions the following RSS aggregators or feed readers
You should already have a gmail account. You will be using it in the following activity.
Discover: Go to Bloglines and create a free account. Once your account is created, add at least 5 RSS feeds to your account. Make sure that one of them is the
Some others you might consider are
ABS for librarians
Fine books
Librarian in black
Explore: In your blog, create an entry that reflects on what you searched for and what you found. If you are stuck, you can use these questions to help start you out:
What do you like about RSS and newsreaders?
What sites did you select for your RSS reader?
How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work?
How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
Did you find any good examples of other library blogs? Remember to take a moment and share your thoughts and comments on someone else’s blog.
Adventure: - (remember this is an OPTIONAL activity) Follow the tutorial on Yahoo pipes and create a Pipe and share it. This is a difficult challenge and may take an additional 20-30 minutes of time.
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Does Learning 2.0 cover how to set up outgoing RSS feeds ie how can you set up an RSS feed button from your blog?
Your blog can be added as an rss feed to any rss aggregator such as bloglines or Google reader already without you doing anything to your blog. You just need to add the url to an rss aggregator.
You can add buttons to you blog to streamline this process if you wish. This blog has some options to choose from http://www.toprankblog.com/tools/rss-buttons/
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