Blogs, RSS Feeds, and Feedly

This week I began taking another technology course towards my master's degree.  I love learning new ways to make my life easier and more efficient.  After all, that is the goal of new technologies!  This week we are exploring blogs and creating one to reflect on our new found skills.  As an educator I follow many wonderful educational blogs.  They provide many new ideas, resources and keep me up-to-date with changes in the world of education.

Blogs and many other sites such as news-related sites deliver their information via a RSS feed.  Why?  The information that is provided is regularly updated or changing and this provides a way to quickly deliver this information.  How do you know if the site is an RSS feed?  Just look for the following symbol.



Even though monitoring many blogs is a great way to learn new ideas and information.  It can be time consuming to enter in each URL to see what has been newly added.  That is were an feed reader can come in handy.  One great feed reader is Feedly.  It allows you to add all your blogs and search for new ones and displays them all on the same page.  New posts or feeds are added to the page.  This eliminates the need to bring each one up individually.  All of your feeds can be found in one place!

Feedly is free and if you already have a google account it is easy to start using Feedly.  Here is the link to Feedly.

This tutorial video will help introduce you to this time saving tool.

It really is easy to stay up on the latest news for anything in which you are interested.