Thing 7: Finding RSS Feeds

I selected the following RSS resources: News from the U.S. Department of Education, Fitness and Nutrition, Education, Sunday Book Review and Best Sellers from the NYT.  I searched the feeds mainly from U.S. Government and New York Times RSS feeds.  I tried to limit my search to topics related to Education but ended up finding topics I personally liked. 

From the America.gov I selected the section Education and Youth to receive feeds from in my RSS reader.

I also created a Google Alert on the topic of English as a Foreign Language and one for Angola.

RSS can be really helpful to my job and life as you can have a different sources providing you information about a topic of your choice.  In this way, you can compare information much faster.  I can see myself using RSS jobs’ feeds, when time comes, for example – I actually found a job feed from the U.S. Government. 

Thing 6: RSS

In addition to the bundle Web 2.0, I added three other bundles: Africa, English and e-books.  Then I searched for feeds about Africa and ESL using the Search option.  I added a few feeds I am interested in to my Africa and English bundles. I also deleted some feeds I did not want from the two bundles. 

I like RSS because it allows me to have the latest news regarding the topics I’ve chosen. 

I can use RSS by sharing my feeds with others – would like to insert an RSS to my blog but have to figure out how to do it.  I already use an RSS in our Angola Embassy Website; it’s inserted on the homepage under the title of Regional News.  This is an RSS with regional news from Africa inserted in our English website.  To reproduce something equivalent in our Portuguese website I have to insert articles translated one by one.