If someone is just starting the seventh thing, you may find, as I did, that you can not get directly to the Plain English tutorial. Paste the address into the browser, then remove the last two portions of the address and you will come to the commoncraft website. Find "Plain English" on the page and click on it. The RSS tutorial is on page four.
Setting up the Google Reader is simple, but finding items about which you want to keep updated is not as easy. There are some suggested groups of feeds--news and sports--and you can type in keywords and get back a list of feeds. I selected several feeds with the keyword "photography" and then unsubscribed from the ones I didn't like. I did the same thing with the keyword "weaving". Then I did a couple regular Google searches for teaching American history and found a pbs site and a couple others that looked like they might be helpful. Those I added by copying and pasting the address onto the reader home page.
I did have a scare when I left Google Reader after having set up some feeds and then didn't know how to get back to it. When I finally found it again it didn't show any of the feeds I thought I had subscribed to. I added the feeds again and then bookmarked the reader site and that works well. Why doesn't Google have reader as one of the options on the search page like has gmail? I did find the link from my profile, but that seemed a bit awkward to use.
The other problem I have--which I have had ever since I first started saving files--is that I did not put the feeds into folders as I subscribed and now I have to try to figure out how to do it after the fact. (It took long enough to find out how to unsubscribe from a feed.)
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Yes - the unsubscribe from a feed is a bit hidden (manage subscriptions >>) at the furthest bottom of the page. I wish Google would fix that.
ReplyDeleteDid you take a look at iGoogle yet?