Now that you have an RSS Reader, you add other feeds that interest you. Find some information literacy related blogs, school library blogs, teaching blogs. podcasts, headlines, or other resources. Share these with MILI via a blog post. There are several ways you can locate RSS feeds:
- Look for RSS feed icons when you visit your favorite Web sites or blogs. Often a feed icon will be displayed somewhere in the navigation of the site.
- Use Blogline's Search tool. This recently expanded search tool lets you search for news feeds in addition to posts, citations and the Web. Use the Search for Feeds option to locate RSS feeds you might be interested in.
- Check out the top "Edublog" award-winning blogs and school library blogs.
- Explore some of these search tools to locate some new feeds.
- Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
- Topix.net - This search tool focuses specifically on news and media outlets RSS feeds for information, not blogs. Search using keywords or phrases.
- Technorati - Technorati is a popular tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are part of all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs . Look at the Technorati Tutorial on finding and adding your blog.
- Google Blog Search—A Google tool that searches exclusively for blogs.Share your posts easily. Add a feed icon to your blog via Feedburner.
Blog Prompts
- Which tool for finding feeds was easiest to use?
- What other tools or ways did you find to locate newsfeeds?
- Find any great sources we should all add to our feed reader?
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