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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Podcast - Using Google Reader for Extensive Listening

Here is Jessina's and my podcast in which we discuss the use of an Google Reader for extensive listening. It is more about the pedagogical and practical merits of the tool than about its technical aspects. Check back in the future for a screencast demonstrating how to set things up. In the meantime, here are a few terms that will probably be useful.

RSS - Really Simple Syndication
RSS feed - a source for updates on a given website
RSS reader - a tool that aggregates feeds








Now that you've listened to the podcast, here are a couple of bookmarklets to get you started-> just drag them to the toolbar of your browser and you are good to go!

This one allows you to subscribe to feeds on a given page.
This one allows you to share any page on the web with a note.

Google's introduction to Google Reader can be found at http://www.google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?answer=113517
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