Google+Reader

**Resources**

 * [|Tour of Google Reader]
 * [|Google Reader Help Page]
 * [|Google Reader Blog]
 * [|Google Reader in the Classroom]

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==**Ideas for Use in the Classroom** ==
 * Create a Google Reader feed for classes and projects
 * Create a Google Reader feed for lesson plan ideas
 * Definitely a great tool for students to use while compiling research for a project
 * Students can receive instant news from various resources such as experts in a particular content, news agencies, and other important and relevant organizations when new information is posted
 * Teachers can add student blogs to their Reader and receive notification every time the blogs are updated.
 * Students can read up on a specific feed or topic and share it with the class (Jigsaw style of learning)
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Teachers can subscribe to other elementary school blogs to follow what students around the world are creating on the web - and then share the best posts with their own students, complete with annotations that relate the international posts to content being learned in class.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Add your Reader feed to your Blog, website or iGoogle homepage.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Check out your Reader Trends and hone in on what sites and topics are catching your interest.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Highlight sections of a website and share it with students or colleagues.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Add “Note in Reader” to your browser tool bar to grab a snippet of any website (even one you’re not subscribed to) and save in Reader.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Use a service like RSSMix.com to create a class feed that consolidates all of the students’ individual shared item feeds.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Read your feeds on the go. With Google Reader on your phone you can access your favorite feeds from your mobile device.