RSS Control Station

In my Emerging Instructional Technology class at the University of Northern, I was tasked to set up an RSS System through the use of Google Reader and iGoogle. Google Reader is an aggregator that I had set up before but needed to subscribe to a few more blogs which include Weblogg-ed by Will Richardson, stevehargadon.com by Steve Hargadon, and Edublogs by Ewan McIntosh.

I must admit I am really satisfied that I did subscribe to a few of these blogs. I could have always gone online and gained information about open office but to just get the facts from someone, as in the case of Steve Hargadon, I could easily do more research from the background that I received in the blog.
Another example presented by Ewan McIntosh had a really great posting called Danah Boyd on Handheld Social Networking. This article was particularly interesting to me because I am currently doing some research on Social Networking and it was nice to get another perspective on the topic.

But back the reason for this posting. Besides Google Reader I also had the opportunity to use iGoogle. I particularly like this site because of the ability to include widgets or gadgets but also add web feeds. On top of that I am a Gmail user and just to come here, a one stop shop if you will, iGoogle homepage provides a direct link to my Gmail account. On this site I added different tabs to help provide some organization to my web feeds and gadgets. Some of these gadgets I included are a currency converter (I seem to make it overseas at least once a year, podcast player with a library of subscriptions to podcast, and RSS feeds to some websites and blogs.

Pretty interesting stuff I had the opportunity to get familiar with.