How to RSS Feed

If you have Windows Internet Explorer, do you use the RSS Feed feature?  If not, consider it.  Here’s what it does:  It allows you to mark websites or blogs that you like to visit so that they show up in a list.  It also monitors to see if the site or blog has new content.  Items in the list that are bold have new content that you have not read yet.  It can save you a lot of time!  No more going to check a site only to find out that nothing new has been added.

Here’s how it works.  Find the site you want to mark, then click the RSS Feed button:

After you click it, you will see a screen that looks something like this:

Click “Subscribe to this feed.”

Next you will see this dialog box:

You can change the name if you wan to tmake it more descriptive, or arrange your feeds into folders.  Click “Subscribe” once you have selected your options.

You will get this message indicating your success.

To use the Feed feature, click on the star on the left side of the screen (not the one with the + symbol on it).

Click on “Feeds” if necessary (it might default to “Favorites”).  The items in bold are blogs or sites with new content that you haven’t read yet.

Be warned:  this will only be “remembered” on the computer you set it up on.  If you set it up at home, you won’t see the same list at work.  But you shouldn’t be reading blogs at work anyway, right?

So now you can mark this site so you can monitor feeds and keep up-to-date with classmate news and feel technologically superior to your neighbors.