I have really enjoyed the topics we have been exploring in this course. This week is no exception. The two major topics we were investigating this week were RSS feeds and Photo sharing sites. I made my first Google Reader to collected RSS feeds from various websites. I wish I had known about this earlier, it really is neat and useful. It basically collects information from sites you subscribe to and sends it to you. This eliminates the need for you to go out and look for the information. It's like email for web information. I can see my self continually using this for my personal and professional life.
I also added photos to my Flickr account. I actually did have a Flickr account set up from a few years ago, but never used it. I now have added more pictures and can share those pictures with others. I'm not sure if I will use it more, but I may. At this point, I do put all my photos on Facebook and share them with my friends there. I also back up my computer with Mozy, so I will have to see if I will use Flickr more or not.
Overall, this week has been interesting and I am looking forward to the second half of this class!
I like you seems to post all of my pictures on Facebook. However, I do have family that has registered for Facebook so they could look at my pictures. I plan to try and use Flickr more as a back up tool. I never thought of it as a backup tool until I watched the video about it. I am excited to use it and keep everything organized.
ReplyDeleteRSS feeds are definitely useful as the collect all of the topics that you are most interested in and package them into one easy to digest format. I wonder how you might use them in your class though? Maybe you could have the students each select several RSS feeds from a list, focusing on topics that are most interesting to them. Then they could report once a week on a story that caught their eye. It might be a good way to get them reading more.
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