Week 4, Thing 8

I had already been doing some stuff with RSS feeds because I have been spending time this summer setting up my iGoogle pages. You can set up your own personalized home page and then add tabs for different subjects. I set up the Google reader on my "Library Stuff" tab of iGoogle and have already added the infodoodads RSS to it so I can get updates since I thought that was such a great site. I've been trying to figure out a way to upload the screen for that particular iGoogle page that I've set up to my blog because it also shows the other RSS feeds I've linked to having to do with library issues. iGoogle is great if anyone else hasn't tried it. I don't understand why we can't do attachments to these postings. I can't find an "add an element" to page choice that allows you to just upload a word document. I have my iGoogle screen pasted to that.

On my iGoogle "News" tab, I added the following news feeds: Time, Newsweek, and People magazines. I also added Scientific American, Psychology Today, PC Magazine and The Economist. The neat thing about iGoogle is that you can add the feeds in separate text boxes or you can set up the Google Reader to get the feeds. In terms of the library, I think there all sorts of opportunities here especially in collaborating with other faculty members who may be working with their classes on current events. You could set up the feed on your library web page along with a digital pathfinder for a specific class project or ongoing discussion of current issues.

I'm going to publish now since I'm working on this during Hurricane Dolly and I don't want to lose it...so, I may be doing a lot of short postings today!!!