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 =  Educate yourself = When visiting your favorite websites -- look for that indicate the website provides it. Often a feed icon will be displayed somewhere in the navigation of the site. The orange square above is one type of RSS feed icon. Here are some other [|RSS feed icons]. Do a [|blog search] in Google. This search limits results only to blog postings. This can lead you to bloggers talking about what you are interested in. Other Search tools that can help you find feeds: > Additonal Resource: [|Technorati Tutorial] on finding and adding your blog
 * [|Feedster] - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
 * [|Topix.net] - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
 * [|Syndic8.com] - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
 * [|Technorati] - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.

Find some education or technology blogs, headlines, or other resources. Share those you find useful via a blog post. Some places to start: edubloggers and interesting rss feeds dealing with education:
 * Kathy Schrock's [|List of Education/Technology Bloggers]
 * *[|Support Blogging]
 * *[|Top 100 Education blogs] (OEDb)
 * *CNN's[| education RSS feed]
 * *[|Classroom 2.0]
 * *[|Infinite Thinking]
 * *[|The Edublog Awards]
 * *[|International Edublogger directory]

Make it public! Add your blogroll (the list of sites you subscribe to via RSS) on your blog! On blogger, it's easy through the layout tab… and then adding a page element! If you've been doing this for a while, check out Todd's [|blog about Google Reader]... and then try out the "stars and notes" for yourself!
 * Discovery Exercise:**
 * 1) Explore some of the search tools noted above that can help you locate some news feeds.
 * 2) Add at least three other news feeds, blogs or Web Page updates to your account (aside from the feeds from the other participants).
 * 3) Create a blog post about your experience. Don't know what to blog about? Here some questions to think about ...
 * What do you like about RSS and newsreaders?
 * How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your school or personal life?
 * How can teachers use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
 * Which tool for finding feeds was easiest to use?
 * What other tools or ways did you find to locate newsfeeds?
 * Find any great sources we should all add to our feed reader?
 * Challenge (optional):**