What are free readers? A year ago, I thought this was a new job title to pay someone to read a book for you for free. It’s wasn’t. I actually had read the word wrong and it was a feed reader.
Today we will discuss what a Feed Reader is and which is the one
that decided to use to follow several blogs. Feed readers are apps where you can manage all
your blogs. You can read all of your
blogs by using the feed reader instead of going to each and every blog site
individually. I read the article The 12 best RSS Reader Apps to follow Your
Favorite Apps, Sites and Feeds by Vicky Cassidy. The article discussed the difference between
an online RSS service compared to that of a native RSS app. It mentioned several apps that would help me
in organizing my blogs into one location.
These included: gReader, Feeder, Reader, Panda, News Blur, Feed Wrangler
and Feedly among others. After reading
the descriptions and the costs of the apps, I decided to use Panda.
I went to the website and signed up for my free account and combined
my Twitter feeds to be sent to Panda.
That is where I knew what I was doing and not totally confused. I could not find a free tutorial on how this
app worked. I tried looking around and
clicking on different icons; but this was getting to difficult for me to
manage. So, I deleted my account and looked at my second choice; which was
Feedly. When I was opening up a new
account; I was reminded that an account already existed. I had forgotten that I had set up this
account. I opened up my existing account
and looked at the different sites that I was subscribed to. I decided to keep most of the ones that I had
subscribed to and added two new blogs to my list.
I decided to continue to follow the following blogs. They are:
a. AASL Blog http://knowledgequest.aasl.org/ posts
articles and editorials from the Journal of American Association of School
Librarians.
b. Library of
Congress http://blogs.loc.gov/loc posts
pictures, articles and other information from the Library of Congress website.
c. Mrs. Reader
Pants http://www.readerpants.net/ posts
articles, book reviews and other fun stuff from veteran librarian, Leigh
Collazo who is in her 14th year as a librarian in an international
school in China.
d. School Library
Journal http://www.slj.com/ posts
articles, editorials and other information from the School Library
Journal. It also provides a link to other blogs from librarians and
readers from around the world.
e. YALSA blog http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/ posts
blogs, articles, journals and other information from the Young Adult Library
Services Association webpage.
f. Mighty Little
Librarian http://www.mightylittlelibrarian.com posts
articles, book reviews and other information from Tiffany Whitehead, a
librarian from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
I added the following two blogs to my
feedly account. I will be updating this as we go along this semester.
g. American Librarians Magazine https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/
posts articles and books reviews that are published in their print magazine.
h.
Library link of the Day http://www.tk421.net/librarylink/
which provides a daily link for keeping
up to date with the library profession.
For the most part I chose these blogs because
they were publishing at least once or more a week.
My Tumblr page is
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/herewegoagaincantu
Pablo,
ReplyDeleteI myself didn't know what Feed Readers was until doing this assignment. Is pretty neat how you can organize all your blogs and apps without having to go thru all of them.
*Bianey Guillen
I too had no idea what a feed reader was until this assignment. I like this state of constant learning we find ourselves in grad school. You have some really good resources listed here.
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