WOW! This is cool!

I agree!

I love RSS feeds, but of course don't use the to their potential in the classroom. I'm having trouble with google reader, love the idea, but I'd rather start with a blank slate and build. There is so much there I'm having trouble starting with simple organization. Any tips out there?

I never knew these existed! So I have a couple of questions before I set one up. Do pictures and links to videos that are posted on one site appear in your Google reader? Will blog posts come up with all the comments and discussions that occur after? Will this format limit writers making a living because if enough people just take the content from the website and bypass the advertisements then their revenue stream dries up? For example, why pay Jeremy to advertise on his blog when everyone reads his material through Google? Let’s just give Google the advertising dollars.

This is weird...as I was struggling to figure out twitter and blogs through our storms....I said to myself...I do not have time to scroll around and screen all this stuff...I need something that will do it for me....and voila...I watch this video..and my dream came true. :) Thanks for showing us this. I will try and get this set up...toute suite....Cynthia

Google reader is cool but I only see the original post and not any comments. Is it possible to set it up to show comments to follow the discussion as well as see the original post?

On most blogs, you need to subscribe to the comments separately from the main blog. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of a post, you should see a link that says "subscribe to post comments." Click on the choice to add it to Google Reader. Do this for any post that you comment on if you want to follow the comments.

I'll try this, I too was hoping there was a way...it will be interesting to see how it comes up on Google reader. I will give Reader props for showing updates to the class. I also have a colleague who is our instructional designer, I'm going to meet with him next week. He's tried everything! He also teaches so has that perspective too. In some ways it's good to feel the frustration because that is what our students may experience, or at least what we will continue to experience if we don't plan ahead and know the pitfalls. Hard to go through, but instructive none the less.

Great -- If you learn a better way, please let us know!

Are there advantages to using Google Reader over the others? I have a My Yahoo account which I do some things from- email, calendar- would it make more sense for me to subscribe to things using the yahoo reader? Or would you suggest, for simplicity's sake, that I transfer everything over to a google account?

I personally dislike yahoo, but mostly because it does not work at my school (or most high schools I've been to) and often causes problems for my students. I don't know how well it actually works, just a thorough dislike... I have been very impressed with the google services, mostly because everything is so well integrated and there are so many features, but I also know that other email clients are begining to offer the same or similar services...

I encourage you to use whatever is most "natural" for you. If you use Yahoo on a regular basis, then use their reader! I use Google for the same reason as Mary. Once everyone has posted their blogs, I will also create a NetVibes page to aggregate the class blogs...