Think
1. Which sites do you visit regularly? Make a list (4~5 is fine). Before you began this course, what did you do (or still do) to keep yourself up to date on new content posted to your favourite sites?
http://w3.icu.ac.jp/ (W3)
http://ojames.blogspot.com/ (Social Computing)
http://euthanasia.procon.org/ (Euthanasia) RSS
http://jp.youtube.com/(YouTube) RSS
In order to keep myself up to date on new content, I just visit these homepages everyday(or sometimes).
Explore
1. Websites that display a button similar to the ones here on the right have an RSS feed that you can subscribe to. Visit a few of the sites that you listed above (Think step). Look over each site carefully, can you find an RSS button? You might need to scroll down the page, and you will need to look carefully if it is a 'busy' page. Which of your favourite sites provide an RSS feed? Write RSS next to each of these sites in your list. Which ones don't? Can you think why some sites do not?
In case of W3, we need ID&password to access. I think it make W3 difficult to have RSS. Also website of Social Computing doesn't have one. Blogger has a gadget to add RSS feed, but it is a class homepage. So it may not be useful to use it. On the other hand, YouTube and discussion site about Euthanasia have RSS feeds. It is because these sites are big enough to take a benefit of them. And they don't have difficulties of having them.
2. How to collect information automatically. Please watch this video that explains more about RSS and how to set up Google Reader, so that you can collect all your updates in one location. Please watch the video a few times, stop and start it at critical points, and use it to learn more about RSS. When you feel confident go onto Do below.
Explain
1. What are the main skills needed to use Google Reader?
The main skills are skills to decide which homepage to take RSS feed, find RSS feed on the page, use Google Reader and organize information I get through it.
2. What are the affordances of RSS (what does it make possible, what does it impede)?
Without visiting homepage everyday, I can get new information easily. It's equal to make me update efficiently. Though it let me catch up newest information, the amount of information can be too big to organize easily. Also it is sometimes difficult to decide which site to take the RSS feeds.
3. How can Google Reader be used to network professionally and connect you (& other students) to learning resources?
It can be a tool to make me up to date. It is important for researching. Also Google Reader stores all information from all websites. It means I can go to older information when I want to. And the stocked information should be interesting for me because I may choose the source websites according to my interests.
4. What skills and understandings have you learned about RSS that may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
Not only make me up to date, Google Reader is useful as a tool to store information. This will let my later research more efficient.
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Thank you Yukari, I think a fairly convincing answer, but perhaps not your most convincing. "Not only make me up to date, Google Reader is useful as a tool to store information." - and although you may not have had much need to yet, it is also searchable, and this is fast and accurate. "Also website of Social Computing doesn't have one." The homepage does not have a button on it, but it does have an RSS feed. Look in the address bar of FF when you are on our homepage, you will see an RSS button. Grade: B.
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