Dear Friends,
I want to share with you some applications that I am using to follow the contents of the blogs I am interested in such as our course blog.
In order to keep up-to-date with the blogs or websites I follow, I use RSS or Really Simply Syndication.
Imagine that you regularly read five blogs related to teaching, and another three blogs related to sports as well as some websites or online journals. Calculate the amount of time you would spend everyday going to all these sites to check on the latest postings. This is where RSS can help us cope quickly and efficiently with the large amounts of new information produced daily.
RSS refers to a way of reading content from blogs and websites.
If you see that orange icon in any blog or website, it means that you can follow it using RSS. How can we use it?
There are two options. I use both.
1. You candownload an RSS reader like Feedreader
(from http://www.feedreader.com/) to your computer. You can use it either in Turkish or English. I am using the Turkish version. You click on "Yeni" and choose"yeni kaynak." On the right side of the text, a search box opens and you write there the adress of the blog (elttechno.blogsport.com) or the website you want to follow. Say "tamam." You can follow the same steps if you use the English version. So, everytime you open your computer, next to the msn icon on the rigt bottom of your screen, you will see the icon of your reader. When you click on it, you will see all recent posts in our blog that you haven't read yet. In other words, everytime you open the reader, it automatically goes along to all of the blogs and websites you are subscribed to, checks for new postings and articles, downloads the headlines of these into your RSS reader, in a list format. To read any of them, simply click on the headline and read the stroy itself.
The only disadvantage of RSS reader is you can only access to it from your personal computer. If you want to access your reader everywhere you have a connection, then, use Google reader.
2. Get a gmail address (or use the one you already have), then go to google reader. It will say "abonelik ekle." To the box that appears, write the name of the blog you want to follow. Then it is ready!
Though it seems complicated, it is an easy and quick process.
P.S. If you want to watch someone starting to use RSS, go to youtube, as a key word write "using RSS" then watch the ones you like.
Best,
Gokce Kurt
