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UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
Managing Online Resources: “RSS” is the key
Real Simple Syndication?
Rich Site Summary?
Ready for Some Stories?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsUFrom “Common Craft”
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
Subscribe to interesting and useful content
Find Good Content:News, scholarly databases, reviews, essays, new books, blogs, latest research…
Find stuff Subscribe Enjoy
Content updates are automatically sent to your Aggregator (e.g. “Google Reader”)
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
Two Things To Learn to Gain Control
1. Set up a free account with an online “aggregator” to harvest information you want
2. Learn how to “subscribe” to your favorite info sources
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
1. Set up a “Google Reader” account
1. Go to reader.google.com
2. Click “Create an Account”
3. Fill in the account form
4. Be sure to give an accessible e-mail address
5. Check your e-mail for confirmation message
6. Once your account is verified, you will be returned to ‘reader.google.com’
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
Once your account is verified, return to Google Reader
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
2. Add Subscriptions to Google Reader
1. Avoid Google’s pre-bundled “subscriptions”
2. Scholars will want to identify good subscriptions for themselves, through peer-reviewed sources, or from their Circle of the Wise!
How? Read on!
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
Adding subscriptions via Customized News Feeds
1. Go to a news site, (News.google.com, news.yahoo.com…)
2. Create a search that yields results that are useful to you
Sample search: “University of Massachusetts Boston”
3. “Subscribe” to the results by clicking on the RSS link
4. New items for that search will appear in your aggregator after you subscribe
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
Clicking on “RSS” brings you here
Click on “Add to Google Reader” to complete the subscription
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
Subscription Success!Google Reader displays your news feed in List View
Current results for “University of Massachusetts Boston” searchin List View
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
Same results in Expanded View
Here, Google Reader displays the same news feed in Expanded View
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
1. Try Academic Search Premiere at www.lib.umb.edu/databases/
2. Form a search that returns useful results
Another feed source: Scholarly Journals
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
1. “Subscribe” to the results via the “RSS” button
2. New items for this search will appear in your aggregator once you’ve subscribed
Academic Search Premiere Results
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
Every RSS subscription has its own peculiarities…
Click the RSS link for the next step in subscribing to the Academic Search Premiere results set
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
Academic Search Premiere – next step:
Clicking on “Add to Google Reader” will finish the process of subscribing to the ASP search results
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
Current results for “renaissance + ferrara + madrigal, fulltext, academic journals only”in Expanded View
These results will be updated automatically if anything new is added to Academic Search Premiere that matches the search terms
Subscription Success!ASP Results in Google Reader: Expanded View
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
Unfriendly Feed Name?
Click on “Feed Settings” and choose “Rename subscription”
Feeds can be renamed
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
Friendlier Title
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
Use your usual, tried-and-true strategies for locating trustworthy content.
Let those sources lead you to others.
Keep your eye out for “RSS” symbols and buttons
Once you’ve found a useful, trustworthy source, SUBSCRIBE to stay up-to-date
Finding Trustworthy Feeds
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
UMT Ed Tech Conference 2008: Managing Online Sources "Creating Your Own Circle of the Wise“ Part II: Joanne Riley
Whenever you locate atrusted source –
look around for the RSS
subscription symbol in one of its many guises:
Then SUBSCRIBE!