This page contains resources from my work with Dr. Larry Ebbers, Iowa State University. These materials are made available under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution-share alike license, which means that you are both allowed and encouraged to use them! Please contact me if you have any other questions about these resources. October 4 & 19, 2012
1. EVERY educator should be using a RSS reader
- Kathy’s basket
- RSS Guide for Educators (a work in progress!)
2. Getting started
- Google Reader (see also Google Reader hotkeys)
- Dangerously Irrelevant
- OCCRL, University of Illinois
- Community College Review
- Minding the Campus: Main Feed & Commentaries
- Community College Journal of Research and Practice
- National Community College Council for Research and Planning [NOPE!]
- Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative [NOPE!]
3. Higher education feeds
- American Association of Community Colleges
- Council for the Study of Community Colleges blog
- Chronicle of Higher Education RSS feeds (incl. ProfHacker)
- Inside Higher Education
- UniversityBusiness
- New York Times: Colleges and universities, Community colleges, Topics
- Times Higher Education (U.K.)
- Critical Mass
- Changing Higher Education
- EDUCAUSE
- Campus Technology
- PhD Comics
4. Higher education job feeds
5. Maximizing your reader
- TreeHugger, Mashable, Perez Hilton, etc.
- Des Moines Register, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Quad-City Times, Omaha World-Herald, Sioux City Journal, etc.
- New York Times, CNN, USA Today, Huffington Post, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, E! Online (scroll to bottom), Perez Hilton, etc.
- ISU News
- Google Reader search (e.g., woodworking, wine, Minnesota Vikings, crafts); see also Technorati categories
- Google Alerts
- rssWeather or Weather.com
- Package tracking
- Feed43 turns any web page into RSS feed
- Convert Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, and other channels into RSS feeds
- Convert Delicious bookmarks into RSS feed
- Send from Google Reader to Kindle
- Other Send To options
- Sharing Google Reader bundles
- 10 things you didn’t know you could do with RSS
- 50 things you can do with RSS
- 100 cool things you can do with RSS
6. Got an iPad or smartphone?
- Google Reader apps to try out
- See also News.me and Prismatic
- Pocket (also connect Pocket to Google Reader)
7. Are you on Twitter?
Miscellaneous Resources
