Weekly Report & Reflection Post #3

Howdy y'all,

This week I learned all about RSS feeds! If you have read my previous blog post you probably already have a little bit of an idea of what they are. RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" and it acts like a bookmarking website. What I find so interesting about RSS feed is that it does not only keep tabs on blog entries, news headlines, audio and videos, BUT it uses a family of standard web feed formats to publish frequently updated information. RSS feeds are a great tool to add to my personal learning environment as it helps me organize web feeds that I am interested in. This means that all of daily posts that you like to watch or read are in one place and are constantly being updated (Boswell, 2015). Feeds that interests me the most are healthy foods, fitness, and sports. I find Feedly very useful to be able to view all my feeds at one time through one interface.

Netrivet, Inc. (2016)

For part of this week I have to share an item with you from my feed reader that interests me. Being that it is a new year, many people like to set a resolution goal. The most common goal that most people make is to get in shape and eat healthy. I myself am also one of these people therefore, an item from my feed reader that I can share with those of you that are in the same boat as myself is Stop Making New year's Resolutions. Do This Instead. I think this informed my own learning because it is a very realistic approach to why we fail as sticking to our resolutions. It helped my understand that we are all creatures of habit and are products of our environment. We can fall off the track once and a while, but it is how we get back on track that matters. The two big take home messages from this blog post was to surround yourself with others who have the same aspirations, and to build a habit. It takes 28 days to make a habit but only 1 day to break it.

Thomas, E. (2013)

RSS Feed readers like myself build a lot of knowledge about digital literacy, responsibility, and citizenship. RSS feeds expanded my digital literacy as it was a different form of technology that I have not learned about before this class. This make me realize how much more is out there that I do not know about which comes to show how rapidly technology is advancing. This is very important because you must be responsible and have proper citizenship on anything that you do or comment on online as there are so many places in which it can end up.
I would classify RSS feed to be a organization tool because like I have mentioned before, it catergorizes all of my favourite blogs, news, articles, videos ect., that I am interested in a web feed that is constantly being updated. Therefore, I would put RSS feed under my organization section of my personal learning environment (PLE).

Thanks for reading!
Jess