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Using Feedly in education

Feedly's ability to bring timely information to the user, and allowing them to save it, open a host of possible uses.

The most obvious use is professional development. With a range of news feeds it is easy to stay up-to-date, and with the capacity to add blogs from fellow educators, you can continue to develop your pedagogy.

In the classroom, Feedly can provide the latest information in your subject area. It can be a source of articles for your students to analyse. Encourage students to create their feeds.

Finding sources

Feedly already has connections to many great sources. Just click on add content.

If you're looking for education sources, TeachThough (itself a blog), has a list of 31 top education blogs. Check it out here.

If you are on a site with this symbol. It means that you can subscribe to updates from it. Just click on the symbol and copy the URL into Feedly's search and you should be able to add that feed.

Getting started

To start, go to http://feedly.com and sign in using your Google account.

You will want to find some sources, so subscribe to some things that might interest you. A word of warning from my personal experience, don't go overboard. Your feed should now populate. 

Feedly has both Android, and iOS apps. There are also many other apps which can display your Feedly feeds, on a number of devices. The full list can be found here.

Finally, the video below will give you more of a detailed introduction.