Tuesday, May 4, 2010

VII. RSS Feeds

I was not sure what to expect when I started this module. I had no idea what a RSS feed was or how to use it. I had of course seen the icon on numerous pages I browse, but never bothered to check it out. After creating my iGoogle account I was immediately surprised at the amount of information on the page. I can access twitter, recipes, weather, events around Indy and that was just the beginning before I began to personalize. Once I began adding my RSS feed sites I began to get frustrated as I found many sites I would have liked to add, but couldn't find an RSS link on their site. I finally settled on three personal ones; govolsxtra.com for all my UT Football news, Daytime Confidential to keep up on my soap opera, and msnbc.com for news. For educational purposes I chose the Library of Congress News for Teachers page and ISTE. I've actually made iGoogle my homepage I love being able to get all my news and daily sites as soon as I log in and find that it saves me the time of having to go from site to site to get the latest info. Thanks for introducing us to this, Mr. Bagwell!

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