Google Reader (www.google.com/reader)
The tool I love to use these days and would like to describe is Google Reader (I seem to be fun of Google tools)
This tool allows me to not waste time visiting the web sites I am interested in, but to subscribe to the news and updates for each of the site I am interested in and read those in one Google Reader window.
Main features:
1) Once you find an interesting site you can subscribe to its news and updates by clicking just one button or via Google Reader interface.
2) You can easily browse all the news in one Google Reader window and thus save your traffic and time.
3) You can tag the most interesting items so that to get back to them later\
4) You can also share this or that news with your friends, but you all need to be somehow connected via google.
Level of difficulty
It is rather easy to use the tool and it requires no specific knowledge or settings adjustment.
Potential application in classroom
Sometimes it could be useful to know what your teacher is reading to stay updated on this or that topic, so a teacher could allow students follow his/her subscriptions, so that they could also stay tuned.
Conclusion
I really like this tool because it saves my time and I do not need to visit each of the sites I like separately and have all the updates on one page. However this tool lacks connection with other google services (for example, if I like something in Goole Reader, I would love to share this in my google+ profile, but I can’t. Though I think that this should change as Google is experimenting and upgrading its services.
Link
One of the sites I am following has an interesting video which I decided to share publicly
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/gamayunster?
I like this tool also. Besides using it to collect all of the new posts from sites I like to visit, I also use it as a place to store all my favorite blogs and news sites.
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