As iGoogle is being retired, the materials have been changed to use Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com). In some ways the Netvibes page does seem offer more features (it certainly has more AJAX features for adding and sharing feeds than the old iGoogle offering). These handouts use an IT context so feeds demonstrated come from arstechnica, slashdot etc.… Read More Creating a personalised Netvibes page with RSS feeds – IT context

This material (PDF) is used with students as the next part of their introduction to the concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE). It describes journal article management and includes setting up an RSS feed for current issues of journals using Google Scholar to create customised alerts the use of reference/article management software such as… Read More Managing journal articles

This material is used with students as part of their introduction to the concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE). It describes setting up and using various RSS feeds in a customised iGoogle homepage (PDF). The resources (Word, PDF and image files) are available for download and reuse.