RSS Feeds 101
I’ve incorporated RSS into classes on blogs and blogging in the past, but tonight I taught a class focusing on RSS, aggregators, and ways you can use RSS beyond subscribing to blogs. I covered a lot of different examples, including using RSS to keep track of news, job listings, real estate, financial news, shopping deals, eBay listings, travel deals, medical information, packages, flickr photos with a specific tag, and of course library new releases and upcoming events.
In case anyone’s interested, the slides are viewable by clicking on the screenshot below. This is also the first time I used Google Docs Presentations alone. I didn’t use PowerPoint or Keynote at all and I was really happy with it. Running the presentation straight off my browser helped create a seamless transition between the presentation and the various websites I used as examples. I didn’t have to fuss with going back and forth from Firefox to PowerPoint, which was very nice! Also, I feel like the basic Google Documents feature is clunky and creates problems when you try to export as a Word doc, but Presentations is pretty clean and functional. Still, embedding a presentation into a blog is kind of messy. It’s nice that the code to embed a published presentation is made available, but it kind of screws up some of my text layout and I can’t have that. I guess nothing’s perfect 
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