Using Google’s RSS Reader

Skills: subscribe to feeds, read feeds

IT concepts: none

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• Internet concepts– Applications (RSS)– Technology– Implications

• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation

Subscribing to an RSS feed

Look for the RSSsubscription icon

Subscribe using Google Reader

Google RSS reader screen

Bold: unread

Left column: subscriptions

Select one feed

Right column: received items (expand by hitting the Enter key)

View all items

Google Reader screen with item expanded

Either the first few lines or the entire post may be displayed, depending upon the was the feed is set.

Click the title to view the full item

Google RSS reader keyboard shortcuts

m: mark as read

n: next item

p: previous item

enter: toggle extended/list view

space bar: scroll down

More shortcuts

For podcasts, install a stand alone RSS reader like

If you have not seen it, watch …

Short video on RSS

A few questions

What happens when you click on the Google Reader Add a Subscription button?

How do you unsubscribe from an RSS feed when using Google Reader?

We discussed several handy keyboard shortcuts. What does the s key do?

Using Google’s RSS Reader

Skills: subscribe to feeds, read feeds

IT concepts: none

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.