A lot of teachers ask me how I have time to follow all the piano teaching blogs and other sites that I do. I admit to them that I really don’t have the time to look at each blog individually, but am able to see and read ALL new posts on these blogs through a tool called RSS. It stands for “really simple sindication” and allows you to see all the new blog posts from your selected group of sites on one page! This is the best way to digest a large volume of information.
If you have a gmail address, RSS is truly, “really simple” allowing you to star items that you like, email posts to others, etc. It would be silly for me to try to explain how to use it when this great post 2010 Guide to Technology: Basic RSS has been written.
After you go through the simple process of setting your RSS reader up, you can add my site to your sites that you follow by clicking on the “Use RSS to read blog posts” link on the right side of every page. You can also just copy and paste this website address: www.composecreate.com into your “Add a subscription” dialogue box that is in your google reader.
Please do yourself a favor and create an RSS reader for yourself. You’ll be amazed at the time you can save and how up-t0-date and inspired you can stay all year!
