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? From “Common Craft”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 address 5.Check your 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” search in 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 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

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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

Whenever you locate a trusted source – look around for the RSS subscription symbol in one of its many guises: Then SUBSCRIBE!

AH, Had I BUT Google Reader..! “He that increaseth knowledge, increaseth anxiety.” Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis, 1605