Contents

1. 1 Presentation
2. 2 Why use Google Reader?
3. 3 Start using Google Reader
4. 4 Resources

Presentation

Why use Google Reader?

• If you find a news site or blog that is of interest, stay up to date by adding a subscription. Every time a new article is posted, it will automatically be brought into your reader.
• If you assign work in class that is written on a wiki or blog, subscribe to the page it is written to. When students add content, it will show up in your reader to read and assess.
• No matter how frequently or infrequently new items are posted, reader will bring all new content to you automatically.
• All of your favorites are automatically in one place to read. No need to go to the original site unless you want to. If you want to, it is no more than one click away. (Consider it as an "inbox" of articles.)
• Looking for something in particular? Use the search feature in order to find new items of interest and add a subscription easily.
• Once you have Google Reader, look for this sign
  
  and clicking on it will allow you a choice to add to your reader (or other way to handle feeds.)
  

Start using Google Reader

1. Open your Web browser and type http://google.com/reader/ in the location box.
   
2. Sign into your Google account using your complete email address and your password.
3. You can start to add a subscription, search or watch a video tour (excellent way to learn about reader.)
4. Find an item to subscribe to, click the feed button, or click "Add a Subscription" and add the address into the space.
5. Change Feed settings (create folders to organize), mark all the new items as read, etc. with the following tools that appear after entering the new subscription:
   
6. Above this bar, choose how you want to see the reader items. Choose "expanded" to view a preview of the feeds or list to see "titles" only: 
   
7. Blog titles appear in a list on the left and the actual articles are in the center pane.
8. Other ways to subscribe may be through the following (little buttons are known as chiclets - you should subscribe to the Google chiclet)              
   
9. Subscribe and manage your feeds by clicking on "Manage Subscriptions." You can delete feeds, create folders, etc. Create folders to organize by creating types (such as hobbies, news, education, etc.) or to simplify which you would want to read first (Important, When have time, or Fun.)
10. Play with other tools such as Share (share with people you identify as friends to use as a social network), add Notes (by creating annotations, these are also shared when you share with friends or will be saved for your viewing later), or view Trends (view your reader histories using different report formats.)

Resources