Plug Me In

RSS, Pageflakes and You!!

November 4, 2007

One of the most challenging struggles that digital junkies face in today’s world is keeping up with the massive amount of content being generated online. Thousands of new posts are made on thousands of new (and old!) websites every day. Even if you spent thousands of hours sitting in front of your computer, you’d probably lose track of what was happening on your favorite sites.

The solution? Get yourself a really good RSS feed reader!

What’s an RSS feed reader? Check out this Commoncraft tutorial to learn more:

http://www.blip.tv/file/205570/

Plug Me In members are going to be experimenting a bit with a feed reader known as Pageflakes. Pageflakes is actually a pretty neat feed reader that I’m sure you’re going to like. It will become the first website that you visit each day, and it is bound to save you tons of time. Instead of having to go to nineteen different websites, you’ll head to Pageflakes to see what’s new.

Here’s a set of directions about how to create and manage your Pageflakes page:

Handout_Pageflakes

Specifically, you’ll be following websites that teach you something new about the region of the world that you are studying in Social Studies. Here are a bunch of web feeds that you may want to start with:

 Pageflakes_Seeds

Rock on, Bam Bam Bigelow

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