Larry Ebbers
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.
August 26, 2011 & September 9, 2011
EVERY educator should be using a RSS reader
- Kathy’s basket
- Google Reader
- Dangerously Irrelevant
- Mind Dump
- Will Richardson
- Google Reader tips
- RSS Guide for Educators (a work in progress!)
Higher education feeds
- Chronicle of Higher Education RSS feeds (incl. ProfHacker)
- Inside Higher Education
- ACE Higher Education and National Affairs feed
- UniversityBusiness
- Community College Review
- New York Times: Colleges and universities, Community colleges, Topics
- Minding the Campus: Essays & Commentaries
- Times Higher Education (U.K.)
- Critical Mass
- Changing Higher Education
- Educause: News & Quarterly & Review
- Campus Technology
- PhD Comics
Higher education job feeds
Maximizing your reader
- Des Moines Register, New York Times, CNN, USA Today, ESPN, etc.
- ISU News
- Google Reader search (e.g., woodworking, wine, Minnesota Vikings, crafts)
- rssWeather or Weather.com
- Package tracking
- Turn any web page into RSS feed: Feed43 or FeedBeater
- Google Alerts
- Google Reader hotkeys
- Send to Kindle
- Send to (even more options!): post 1, post 2
- Got an iPad? Check out Flipboard and Reeder
- Sharing folders or bundles
- 50 things you can do with RSS
- 100 cool things you can do with RSS
Also see
- Video: Iowa, Did You Know? (there’s also a facilitator’s guide)
- My landing page for parents and educators
Resources