Okay – you all can tell me if you get tired of these videos but I think Common Craft does a nice job with giving quick, practical overviews of these technologies (and here’s their advice on how to survive Zombies). And pay close attention because they are describing your task for this week!
Task #1: Watch the video
Task #2: Sign up for an account with Google Reader or Bloglines. These are also called “news aggregators” — they collect the news you’re interested in and put it one place for you to read.
Task #3: Subscribe to this blog and to all the blogs for this group (you can get these over on the right-hand corner and right-click to “copy” the link and paste it into your news aggregator of choice.
Task #4: Check this at least once a day to see if people are posting anything new (which implies y’all be posting new stuff from time to time – hey, post about signing up for Google Reader or Bloglines — easy or hard?).
Next: We’ll widen our readership and add other blogs. I have some to suggest and we’ll look at how to find them. Then we’ll go to online photosharing!
Update: Here’s a recent post of someone comparing Bloglines and Google Reader….
I like the videos, Lynn. While done in a light-hearted, fun manner, they are engaging and interesting (i.e., educational).
Lynn, yes I am a You Tube fiend and loving it. I look forward to finding those other RSS feeds about topics of interest. It was very easy to add the blogs to Google Reader.
Ok – this is very cool! I’d subscribed to a couple of news websites using my browser, but the Google Reader is so much more convenient! I’d never heard of a news aggregator before – very handy tool!
I just want to quickly add that I too enjoy the Creative Commons you tubes.
I can see ways of integrating this into my online research class. Very cool videos.
Thank you for sharing the Creative Commons site with us.
I think we all strive for simplicity and the site presents material
about as concisely and understandable as possible.
Thought I’d just signed up for a couple of these, and I suddenly have about 50. Oh, well. I was wondering what to do when I retired….
By the way, pics of Chichen Itza are now on my Blog.