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Next class session we will be looking at feed reading, or using RSS feeds to keep up with what’s new on a lot of web sites easily and in one central location. This is also called “aggregation.”

CommonCraft has a great short video on this called RSS in Plain English that should help you understand the concept.

There are many feed readers available. Some run on your desktop and others are accessible on the web. While the desktop readers are sometimes more powerful and customizable, web readers provide the convenience of being able to access them from pretty much any computer.

I will demonstrate using Google Reader, one of the many services enabled by signing up for a free Google Account. If you want to be ahead of the game, you can sign up for the Google Account before class!

We will be importing all the class blogs to Google Reader using the Class Blogs OPML file (a list of sites). If you have the know-how, you can download that file and import it into Google Reader using the Import/Export section in the Manage Subscriptions area.

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