20 Day Blogging Challenge -- Day 3: What is a website you cannot live without?
I love information and I love it when information comes to me! As a result of taking Shelley Paul's excellent online course
K12 Learning 2.0 I learned about RSS feeds.
RSS feeds alert me to whenever some of my favorite bloggers have added a new post or when a website I'm interested in has added material. The new information is thrown my way and caught by an aggregator or feed reader. When I find information that I'm interested in following, I subscribe to that site -- in a sense I ask by aggregator to keep looking at it and let me when when there is new information I should take a look at. For example, professionally I subscribe to other librarians, educational technologists, teachers, and even my school's website. (I subscribe to Kelly Hines'
In The Trenches blog -- the catalyst for attempting this 20 day challenge!) On the personal side, I subscribe to several TV spoiler blogs (who has time to actually watch TV!), DIY sites, and sections of the
Huffington Post.
I use
Feedly as my aggregator. I have it on my laptop, iPad and phone. I can look at the latest news whenever and wherever I have a few minutes. I can mark things to save for later, or I can mark them as read and they disappear. I've gotten some of my best ideas from Feedly, and the information comes to me at my convenience. What's not to love about that!!
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