An RSS Reader for the iPad

A large part of my Personal Learning Network (PLN) consists of reading blog accounts. I read blogs for information, many times interacting with the author via comments. Even though there are other areas a person can use to connect with others in the field, the preferred method for me is through blogs. I like having an application which brings me the articles when it is posted by the authors. I follow well over 60 blogs at a time and I find it easy to do once the information is aggregated into areas of interest defined by me. For this purpose I have been using an iPad app called Feeddler RSS. There are two versions to this app. One version is free and the pro version is almost $5. Because both versions functions the same, I would highly recommend using the free version to start. This is an app I used every time I open my iPad. The reader is organized based on my Google Reader (video link). Feeddler (review here) uses Google (RSS) Reader to populate this application. This is great because it still allows you to use the cloud to keep your feeds, which means you are not dependent on any peripheral to access your reader. If students had blogs and were posting along with commenting on those blogs, I find it easier to grab the RSS link to blog postings and comments and read them from my reader, rather than go to the website every time. In a class where students are posting and commenting on blogs, this application can make sense around classroom management by interacting with content in one place.