RSS Feed

Well I had a good laugh at myself.  Thinking that RSS Feed was new to me I was about to set out and figure out how to do this – I see benefits in RSS for me!  So I asked a friend to help me download an RSS Feed.  She asked me if I had a gmail account and wanted to see it.  She pointed out the “little windows” in my Google Reader account that show other blogs I am following and said that I was doing RSS Feed already!  LOL, I thought I was just following other blogs – that’s RSS FeedJ   I am actually doing something of my choice that is a Web 2.0 tool before it is taught to me!  I am so happy to hear this.  I feel a bit more with it now.

(I will mention this – now I can read everyone’s blogs and I am feeling really infeariour!  OMG  Everyone in this class is like a pro already.  I have made great gains in my learning for Web 2.0 but it still looks like a beginner blog compared to everyone else.  I see that this is why Aaron gave us all of the blog addresses on that one easy download but I did not understand that to find all of the blogs I had to go to Reader!  I just thought I was not successful loading the blogs on my Reader and did not want to tell anyone.  So I just followed those who are on blogger.)

I have learned that an RSS Feed is Rich Site Summary and it streams blogs of interest to me that I have subscribed to.  I can look at the blog when I wish on my computer.  The Feed is shown on my Google Reader as the beginning few lines to the blog.  http://youtu.be/0klgLsSxGsU

So instead of me taking time to search blogs I am interested in for new stuff, RSS will send the blog to me when something new happens on the blog I subscribe too.  Not so much wasted time for me!

Will Richardson is right to get excited about this Web 2.0 tool.   

The thing I like about “subscribing” to blogs is that it is text but visual too.  Other blogs I subscribe to are of my choice and interest (not like junk mail) and they have images, links, videos, podcasts, etc.  It’s like a Web 2.0 party of tools that come to me and I get a glimps of it before I click to see if I want to view the whole blog.

I will continue to use gmail and my blog so it makes sense for me to stick with Google Reader even though there are other variations of RSS Feed out there.

Blogs

I think this is my most favourite thing in Web 2.0 – blogging!  I love to journal and reflect to begin with but now I can do that and add links, embed, make a video or voicethread and many other things so that my reflection is multisensory. 

I started to use Edublog at the start of the course because it was suppose to be easy to use but, of course, I found it difficult.  I want to try it for school purposes later.   For this course though Blogger was easy to use.  Not the prettiest but I like my template.  It suits me right now – Keeping It Simple to learn from!

I don’t follow famous names but I like to follow bloggers with nice sites that art about art especially. I will follow educator sites but I prefer ones that are more visual rather than lots of text and academic looking.  In the blogging world I go for esthetics, nice visuals.

Some of the blogs I like to follow are:

Nosy Crow is cute and not too cluttery. 

Drawn is the hottest blog site for art at this moment.  I hope I can embed this but check out “Dumb Was To Die” and scroll to end of blog luclatulippe -  it is about safety around trains. 

I subscribe to Artful Blogging as a way to inspire my art and to motive me in getting a blog or webpage for my art.  I really want to share my art on the internet regardless of copyright worries.  But that is for Christmas time excitement.