Day+6

Tasks for today:

 * 1) FirstClass
 * 2) Profile & grading
 * 3) RSS & Google Reader
 * 4) Google docs

FirstClass

 * 1) Check your First Class account.
 * 2) Clean out your Inbox, Drafts, Junk, and Sent Mail folders of any messages you no longer need.
 * 3) Have a look at your calendar. Enter any relevant events.

Profile & grading
Your profile should be complete. You should have five sections. Each section should have: All of your grades to this point have been on completion. Your profile will be graded on the criteria above.
 * 1) A banner made in CoolText
 * 2) 4-7 complete, correct sentences about the section. Use proper capitalization, spelling, and punctuation.
 * 3) At least one graphic

 === RSS & iGoogle === RSS stands for **R**eally **S**imple **S**yndication. It is a format for web content that is frequently updated, such as news sites or blogs, to publish their content in a really simple way. The content that is sent in the RSS format is referred to as a feed. You have probably seen the RSS feed symbol many times and wondered what it was. Basically, by subscribing to RSS feeds, you can control what content comes to you. Look around an the web and find five sites that have an RSS feed symbol. These are sites that have content that change frequently. Now we will use iGoogle, a web-based application called an RSS aggregator. That means you can subscribe to RSS feeds there and read them without having to go out to the sites all of the time.

Subscribe to at least ten feeds that you find interesting and place them in a tab in iGoogle called "Current Events". You should have several that will help you keep up with current events, such as a news site for MS students. Find other feeds that may help you with school or your other interests. If you find a subscription that you think another student might like, email it to them to add to their iGoogle page. Take a screen shot of this tab and post the image on your profile page.This is due by the end of next class.

We will spend a few minutes of class reading our feeds and sharing interesting articles with our classmates.

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Take a look at this web published document to view a summary of how to embed media widgets into your wiki page.

@http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfmwmrfk_22dq3mqshf
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