If you're reading this right now, you're reading this right now. Which means that you're reading a blog. Which means that you may read other blogs. Which may that you may be burdened with the task of having to manually check a blog every time you want to read it. Lucky for you, I've got something in my toolbox that makes checking up on all those blogs you try to keep up with "really simple". (RSS.)
If you don't already have one, create an account with Google Reader. You're already almost there. All you have to do, now, is hit that pretty red "Subscribe" button, and do just that: subscribe. Enter the URL of a blog that you want to keep up with, and within seconds, your RSS Feed will be ready to display updates from that blog!
Tools like this are incredibly useful for those of us who have hefty daily reading lists, or overflowing bookmark bars. RSS Feed is a great way of keeping up with which blogs you follow and keeping up with those blogs! Personally, I love the convenience of being able to read posts from more than one blogging site in the same location. It keeps everything waiting for me in a nice, central location. It's like the supermarket of the blogosphere!
Educators can benefit greatly from this tool, seeing as it expedites the process of doing daily reading, and everyone knows educators could use more time. RSS Feed would be particularly useful in a situation in which students were asked to keep blogs. The teacher could keep up with them all in a single location without the hassle of remembering every individual URL. This could also prove useful in allowing teachers to keep up with education blogs, as well, though! RSS Feed simply makes locating blogs and knowing when new posts have been made easier. Therefore, where there's a blog, there's a benefit!
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