RSS Feeds

It can be really time consuming to keep going back to a website to see if they have posted new information. To save time you can subscribe to an RSS Feed for that website.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and the feed basically brings the information to you through a reader. A reader is a site that you use to collect this information. There are a number of different readers you can use, for example Google Reader, Netvibes, Pageflakes and Bloglines.

Here is a helpful video from CommonCraft.com to give you a better idea of what an RSS feed is and how to use one.

Please add this blog to your RSS feed to ensure you are up to date in the Directed Studies course. Off to the left of this post you will notice a heading that reads "Subscribe to". You can subscribe to just the posts and the comments using this tool. It will give you a few options of what reader to use. I use Google Reader and would be happy to help you set that up if you like. I believe you also have an RSS reader set up in your Vista Widgets.