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I think that I have finally finished with feedburner. i had to keep doing it over and over. It was frustrating but I kept at it.
Thank you kathy for all your support. The video directions were what finally did it for me. I agree that this was something that I needed to see.
I am not sure what use i can make of this in a school setting but i do agree that teenagers would probably take to any form of technology or communication.
I too do no0t have a place to set up a rss feed at school but it would be a great promotion for the media center. However i need alot more practice.
Carol
I think that I might have found this content a bit more "user friendly" had I attended a class in person. I think that I had the correct outcomes for the class assignments but didn't always follow the prescribed paths. (Thanks for your patience, Kathy.)
We do not have a current RSS feed on the Danvers High Library website, which is being revamped at the moment. I do think that Karen's comment about updating information without waiting is a good reason for an RSS feed. I also think that it would help to promote programs and current information for our patrons as well as the general public.
I also need a lot more practice to become comfortable using RSS.
I think I need a lot more practice and feel that I definatelt will use some aspects to supplement our website.
Thanks Kathy. Loved the demo.
Going on vacation now.
Karen
Just finished the feedburner thing. I used both chicklet and buzzbooster. Found it most confusing but interest. Clearly, I need more practice. I had the RSS icon up there and then when I went to do buzzbooster I ended up with something looking a bit funky. Will try again after a bit of necessary distraction.
The people who would subscribe would be the those into the immediate access of data most likely the teens and those with prior knowledge of RSS. This is something to put in a enewsletter or paper newsletter with instructions on how to do it at their library. I think Buzzbooster is great for limiting info to the most current and keeping track of stats through feedburner is fabulous. I love having the immediate info in front of me. It's just so much easier to keep track of what's going on now.
RSS would be great for linking to events pages, forthcoming items pages - the immediate and upcoming Library news. I am very happy to say we now have an RSS feed on our homepage for events which was done with the help of our Librarian in charge of the webpage. It has not been enhanced with feedburner but that's in the works.
I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I can't get FeedBurner to accept my title and address. I keep getting the following message when I click "next": The feed was cancelled and not activated. I've tried a couple of different addresses. I think it is something simple, but I need help to figure it out. Linda
This week's assignment is a little shift away from the assignment we did last week. We essentially set up the Google Reader account so that you can see how to sign up for RSS feeds. This week, we're moving away from the Google Reader account and looking at ways we can provide RSS feeds to our users so that they can use their Google Reader account to subscribe to library news. You wouldn't be sharing your Google Reader feeds with them. Instead, you're offering your very own RSS feed.
As an example, if you go to the WordPress blog you created back in January, you will see a link that says "Entries (RSS)" in the upper right corner. This is the feed you would want to share with your patrons. If you provide a link to your blog from your library Web site, those patrons who know how to use RSS would see the link and subscribe to the feed from there. Does this make sense?
Again I am so confused. I sent up the GoogleReader account OK. I can read the leads and move them around and delete them but I still don't understand where library patrons would find my feeds to look at.
Karen
I too should alert other teachers about the rss option for their class planning and personal use.
Carol
Linda
Also I can emphasize the use of RSS for managing information.
Studentsoften have to keep track of current event trends and find a science in the news article.
Carol
I hope you've enjoyed exploring a different way to gather your news. I just wanted to comment on a couple of the points raised in the discussion.
There were a couple of comments made about the way you can get to your feeds. If you continue using Google Reader, there are a couple of things you may want to consider. Debbie had mentioned accessing feeds from an entry page in Firefox. On my laptop, I have set up multiple tabs as my homepage in Firefox. Firefox has the SEMLS Web site as my home page, but it also automatically opens several other tabs at the same time, including a tab with NewsGator, which is what I use for my RSS feeds. You can also consider using a portal, like My Yahoo or iGoogle, for your RSS feeds. A portal may be a better start page for Firefox than Google Reader.
There is also an application called ReadAir - http://code.google.com/p/readair/ - that you can install on your computer. It allows you to read your Google Reader feeds from your desktop. It also synchronizes with your Google Reader account so that if you read a feed while logged into Google Reader, ReadAir will know that it's already been read. Google Reader also has a nice feature where you can read your feeds even when you are offline. You can find more info at http://www.google.com/help/reader/offline.html.
As I mentioned above, I use NewsGator to read my RSS feeds. Like Google, it is an online reader, but it also has a desktop application called NewsDemon that allows you to read your feeds on your desktop as well as an iPhone app called NetNewsWire that allows you to read your feeds on your iPhone and iTouch. (Google Reader also has an iPhone app.) All of these different applications synchronize with each other so that you can read your feeds in different locations without losing track of which feeds have been read. Laura, using something that allows you to read feeds both online and on the desktop may help you balance the whole issue of whether you should read feeds at home or at work. I find I usually read my feeds whenever I have a spare moment (not that I have many of them!). When I'm at work, I tend to read them online and, when I'm at home, I tend to read them on my iTouch.
Carol and Karen - I love the fact you both brought up using RSS with teens. While many of the other applications we've covered in this series are glitzy and are things teens may already be using, I really think it is essential that RSS is a tool that students learn to take advantage of. I have attended the MassCUE (Mass Computer Using Educators) conference for the past two years, and the thing that speakers are always emphasizing is that RSS is the way students need to learn to manage information. It is used quite a bit as part of education in other countries, but, in this country, we still tend to fall back on supplying links and bookmarks for our students to follow. If you look at the other sites we've explored during this series, every one of them incorporates an RSS feed. RSS really is the underpinning of all of these applications and is the thing that gets them to all work together.
We can hook teens on RSS by including things of personal interest, but I also want to raise some ideas for educational uses. When you look at our regional database subscriptions, both InfoTrac and Ebsco provide RSS feeds. If a student is working on a long-range project, they can do a search in either of these databases to bring up articles of interest and then create an alert that will notify the student via RSS if any new article enter the database that matches those search terms. It ensures that they will get the latest information on the topic. Google and Yahoo News also has this kind of RSS capability. There are also more OPACs that incorporate RSS, including AquaBrowser (used by OCLN) and Koha (used by MassCat.)
I hope.
Karen J
I have to focus more on professional rather than personal use of these info vehicles and decide what, if anything, I should/need to take from each one considering my own professional and time management priorities. For those reasons, I like Google Reader, as the article suggested, for its "list view" and "only list updated" features.
I, like Carol, think that high school students should be exposed to RSS feeds and news readers. Like everything that we have studied, they may or may not have an important role in the future of information management.
I agree with Karen that these feeds will be useful to me in keeping current with my favorite library blogs. Personally, the opportunity to go to just one place to check both professional and individual interests very appealing. It takes a lot of effort to keep current in library matters.
I am not sure if there is any one way to manage the constant flow of things that I should read or even things that I want to read. However any way of organizing and prioritizing information is of interest to me.
Using RSS feed with students could be a useful exercise and one which I think would be of interest to them , especially if it could involve sites of personal interests.
Carol
I'm on the "feeling a bit overwhelmed" side of the fence. But then again, I'm easily distracted, AND I tried to work on this at the reference desk. I think once I get used to it I'll feel like it's more useful, but at this point I'm probably not using it to its full capacity. On the other hand, I noticed that there is an RSS reader on my home laptop's Mail program....
So, will it be most useful to use google-reader to quickly move thru into between patrons at the reference desk? Or will I use it more at home, on my own machine? I'm thinking that it might be useful to deliberately separate my "home" rss feeds from my "work" rss feeds.