A google reader tutorial, Pheromone Secretion No. 3
I can’t deny it. It could be cleaner, a little sharper, less clunky. It’s those arrows I think. I wanted to use Jing for this tutorial that I put together for my students, but I was having issues with my account (or, more likely, I was having issues pulling up my username and password from the depths of identity protection), so I figured it would take less time to photoshop my screen shots (command+shift+4) then it would be to resolve the issue. In any case, here’s a tutorial for importing an xml file into google reader that could be useful for students. Feel free to beg, borrow, or steal (well, keep the begging–just have at it.)
The original post:
Over the past couple of days, I have been collecting your various blog addresses. I’ve been getting a lot of notes from you concerning the places to find your fellow bloggers for the floating workshop.
I’ve been able to compile a list of all the blog addresses for my classes. I added them to my reader and I’ve exported them in a special kind of format that will allow you to import them into your google reader account.
I’ve done all the work for you, and since I have, there’s no reason in having you add everyone to your reader accounts. Instead, I can just share my work with you, and you can automatically have what took me two hours to compile and organize.
The file that you should import is a collation of my classes. This way, you can see the blogs that my other classes are doing, and you can read and comment across classes. By blogging, I’ve just networked our three classes together, and if you guys want to work across classes later on the semester, I’d be open to that suggestion.
Please note that once you import the file, you won’t have every single class member. I have not received emails from all my students giving me their URLs, so there are a few missing. We’ll all be able to add them later on, however, when we find out what their addresses are.
Ok, Here’s what you need to do to import the file.
- Click on the file and save it to your desktop.
- Open google reader.
- In the upper right hand area, you’ll see a menu. Click Settings
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4. In the new window, click import/export
5. Find the file on your desktop and upload it.
6. After it uploads, it will take you to the subscriptions page. Just select Back to Google Reader and you’ll see your imported subscriptions. Vala!
