Educational Sites every teacher should know and how to set up RSS

Inside Higher Ed https://www.insidehighered.com/
NY Times Learning Network https://www.nytimes.com/section/learning
Edutopic https://www.edutopia.org/
Classroom 2.0 https://classroom20.com/
TeacherTube https://www.teachertube.com/
Midshift https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/
Educational Technology
and learning 
 https://www.educatorstechnology.com/
HomeRoom https://blog.ed.gov/
Teach Thought https://www.teachthought.com/

How to Setup a RSS Feed from your favorite websites

In simple terms, RSS is a simple and effective way of keeping in touch when new information is added to a website without having to visit the website to check for new updates.

How it works is you subscribe to your favorite website using the RSS feed in a RSS feed reader such as Feedly.  Whenever new information is added to the website it is automatically sent to your RSS feed reader where you can read it at your convenience.

For example, whenever your favorite blogger publishes a new post it is automatically sent to your Feed reader.

Sites with RSS feeds are normally indicated with the word RSS and/or the orange RSS icon.

SETTING UP FEEDLY (TABLET OR SMARTPHONE)

The most popular RSS Feed Reader is currently Feedly.

Here’s how to set up Feedly on your tablet or Smartphone.

1.  Create a Gmail account (if you don’t have one).

2.  Download the Feedly app (iOS | Android)

3.   Launch the Feedly app.

4.  Tap on the Home lnk.

Tap on Home link

5.  Tap on Login.

Tap on Login

6.  Enter your gmail address and password then tap on Sign In.

Tap on sign in

7.  Tap on Accept.

Tap on Accept

8.  Tap on Search.

Tap on Search

9.  Add the blog URL (or website URL) you want to subscribe to into the search box.

10.  Tap on the + icon next to the title of the blog to add the subscription.

Add the blog URL

11.  Tap on Category.

Tap on category

12.  Type the name of your category and tap on Create.

  • Categories let you easily prioritize your reading and locate subscriptions.  In our example, we’ve used the category Education to subscribe to educational blogs.
  • If you were adding all the student blogs to your Feedly Account you might use the category Student Blogs.
Create your new category

13.  Your subscription has now been added to your Feedly account.

14.  Continue this process of adding blog subscriptions until you’ve subscribe to all the blogs (websites) you want to read.

Subscribing to blogs

15.  Once you’ve finished adding your new subscriptions just tap on the Home link.

Tap on Home link

16.  Then on a Feedly category to start reading your subscriptions.

Tap on a category to start reading