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Try four tools that give us RSS feeds for keyword searches in blogs, news sources, videos, podcasts, articles, and journals
Since it's easier to use these tools than it is to explain how they work, please take a moment to try them out.
 * 1) Open your [|Google Reader]. You'll need a [|Google Account] if you don't have one yet.
 * 2) Choose a keyword, something that your students might want to research, for example: "Relationships" You will use this keyword to find blogs, news sources, podcasts, and articles. In the next steps we are going to set up "rivers" of information in your Google Reader that will constantly update. Clearly, setting up a reader is just the beginning of a reading/writing process. Bloggers also have to //select// from these rivers, then //read// (and understand) these sources before using quotations from them in their blog posts.
 * 3) Start by setting up a feed that will collect all the posts in which the bloggers use your keyword: [|Google Blog Search]
 * Once you get to the results page, find the Subscribe box in the left column, and right-click on the RSS link.
 * Copy Link Location or Source, and go to your Google Reader.
 * In Google Reader, click the **Add subscription** button, then paste the feed from Google Blog Search into the box, and click Add.
 * Go to **Add to a folder...** / **New folder...** and make a folder with the name of your keyword (in this example, "relationships").
 * Repeat the last step: Go to **Add to a folder...** / **New folder...** and make //another// folder to collect this media (in this case, "blogs").
 * This way your Google Blog Search river will be in two folders: "blogs" and "relationships".
 * 1) Do the same thing with [|Google News.] This service will search and browse over 4,500 news sources, looking for your keyword (relationships). The RSS feed from that search will bring those articles into your Google Reader.
 * Once you get to the results page, find the Subscribe box in the left column, and right-click on the RSS link.
 * Copy Link Location or Source, and go to your Google Reader.
 * In Google Reader, click the **Add subscription** button, then paste the feed from Google News into the box, and click Add.
 * Go to **Add to a folder...** and click your keyword (in this example, "relationships").
 * Go back a second time to **Add to a folder...**, and this time click **New folder...** Make //another// folder to collect this media (in this case, "news").
 * This way your Google News river will be in two folders: "news" and "relationships".
 * 1) The next step might be to find articles from magazines and peer-reviewed journals. Although local librarians can help point us to databases in the [|Deep Web] that are available to our students, Look Smart's [|Find Articles] is another source to find more extended, scholarly articles.
 * Put your keyword (relationships) into the left box and choose **free articles only** in the right box, then click the //Look// button.
 * Find the **RSS alert** link at the bottom of the first page of results, and right-click on that link.
 * Copy Link Location or Source, and go to your Google Reader.
 * In Google Reader, click the **Add subscription** button, then paste the feed from Find Articles into the box, and click Add.
 * Go to **Add to a folder...** and click your keyword (in this example, "relationships").
 * Go back a second time to **Add to a folder...**, and this time click **New folder...** Make //another// folder to collect this media (in this case, "articles").
 * This way your Find Articles river will be in two folders: "articles" and "relationships".
 * 1) That's not all! We can do the same thing with podcasts as well! (Actually Everyzing also searches video, but since much of it is[[image:elggplans:readerleft.jpg align="right" caption="readerleft.jpg"]] YouTube, which is blocked in many schools -- and there's an organizational advantage to focusing on audio only -- this example suggests that you only search for podcasts). So please browse over to [|Everyzing].
 * Choose the Audio button, put your keyword (relationships) into the box, then //Zing It!//
 * Click the **RSS** link at the top right corner of the results. (Notice that you do not copy this link this time.)
 * Copy the long link under these instructions: "You can subscribe to this RSS feed by copying the following internet address into your RSS reader:"
 * In Google Reader, click the **Add subscription** button, then paste the feed from Everyzing into the box, and click Add.
 * Go to **Add to a folder...** and click your keyword (in this example, "relationships").
 * Go back a second time to **Add to a folder...**, and this time click **New folder...** Make //another// folder to collect this media (in this case, "podcasts").
 * This way your podcast river from Everyzing will be in two folders: "podcasts" and "relationships".

What's next?
Now you should see a folder that says **relationships**. When you click on that word all the "rivers" of articles, blogs, news items, and podcasts that you have stocked are ready for you. Keep in mind that even when you step away from your computer these rivers continue to get re-stocked with new media about your topic. How do you organize these streams of constantly renewed information? Take a look at how to use //Starred items// and //Shared items//. As you begin using your reader you might want to check your reading //Trends//. And as [|this post] suggests, the //Next// tool is a very useful.