This website was created to support my workshop at the 2008 APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, San Jose, CA, February 22-24.
News Sources
- Getting started with RSS Feeds and News Readers
- LA Times
- RSS feeds from the LA Times
- NY Times
- RSS feeds from the NY Times
- Washington Post
- RSS feeds from the Washington Post
- Chicago Tribune
- Miami Herald
- Yahoo News
- Yahoo! RSS feeds – subscribe by category
- BBC RSS feeds subscribe by category
- Google News – subscribe to RSS feeds of results of keyword searches.
- LexisNexis News – news portal
Finding Other Blogs and Posts Related to Recent News
- Blogrunner – Blogrunner monitors news articles and blog posts and tracks news events as they develop across the Web.
- Technorati – Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs.
- Google Blog Search – google search engine optimized for searching blogs.
- Icerocket – blog search engine
- Global Voices – Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online.
- Blogs in Political Science and Political Theory – A list of Political Science blogs.
Tools for managing news and blog updates
- Getting started with RSS Feeds and News Readers
- Bloglines – Bloglines is a free online service that helps you subscribe to and manage lots of web information, such as news feeds, weblogs and audio.
- Google Reader – online RSS newsreader
- iGoogle – create a homepage with RSS headlines
- MyYahoo – create a homepage with RSS headlines
Free Blog Hosts
- Edublogs – a hosting service designed for class-based and educational blogs that uses the WordPress platform
- 10 ways to use Edublogs to teach
- Video showing creation of new Edublog
- Blogger – a popular free hosting service
- WordPress.com – a popular free blog hosting service
Other resources on class blogs
- Blogs in Education from the University of Houston, Clear Lake
- Scholars who blog, from the Chronicle
- Writing with weblogs, from TechLearning
- Creating a Writing Course Utilizing Class and Student Blogs, from the Internet TESL Journal
Political Science Blogs
Blogs in Political Science and Political Theory – A list of Political Science blogs.
- The Moderate Voice
- The Democratic Piece
- The Reaction
- Votelaw
- Election Law
- Two Weeks Notice
- we move to canada
- Kiwiblog
- Bloggings by boz
- Informed Comment Global Affairs
- Lawyers, Guns & Money
- A Good Beer Blog
- Crooked Timber
- Political Arithmetik
- Make My Vote Count
- simon jackman’s blog
- Arms and influence
- strange maps
- Seen Through a Glass
- Jacob T. Levy
- Signifying Nothing
- Pith and Substance
- On the Fringe — Al Tzitzit
- No Right Turn
- PolySigh
- Swords and ploughshares
- Crawl Across the Ocean
- Prospects for Peace
- SevenPack Beer Blog
- La Profesora Abstraida
- Sustainability Blog
- One/Change
- Another Brilliant Idea
- Latin American Politics
- PoliBlog
- Colombia: A PoliBlog Sideblog
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