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Today I’ll start with a brief summary of what I’ve learnt about Bloglines so far. Last week, I learnt how to subscribe to the personal blogs in my group; how to subscribe to any other interesting sites I found during my online searches; how to create playlists.
It was great fun and it was definitely useful. I didn’t know how to create an account on Bloglines; how to subscribe to all of my peers’ personal blogs; how to organize a playlist. These are nice tools to organize information and a good way to organize my work. Due to the fact that in our everyday life we are constantly urged to save time (and money), we need to find what we need - quickly.
The strong point using an aggregator is that each time the sites you subscribed to are updated with new information, you receive the update. Therefore, you’ll save so much time and you’ll receive information quickly. In my opinion, it’s vital to have such a tool because it enables us to tidy up our collection of blogs.
If you want to find more about aggregators, have a look to Using An "Aggregator" To Capture RSS Feeds: A Technology For Keeping Up-To-Date, a very interesting article by Bell Steven. I carefully read through it and I realized that life is easier for those who master technology (I’m clearly experiencing it now in my work!).
Last week, I had a look also to the site of npr, which Sarah suggested us. I had a look at this site because I could find much information on:
Today I’ll start with a brief summary of what I’ve learnt about Bloglines so far. Last week, I learnt how to subscribe to the personal blogs in my group; how to subscribe to any other interesting sites I found during my online searches; how to create playlists.
It was great fun and it was definitely useful. I didn’t know how to create an account on Bloglines; how to subscribe to all of my peers’ personal blogs; how to organize a playlist. These are nice tools to organize information and a good way to organize my work. Due to the fact that in our everyday life we are constantly urged to save time (and money), we need to find what we need - quickly.
The strong point using an aggregator is that each time the sites you subscribed to are updated with new information, you receive the update. Therefore, you’ll save so much time and you’ll receive information quickly. In my opinion, it’s vital to have such a tool because it enables us to tidy up our collection of blogs.
If you want to find more about aggregators, have a look to Using An "Aggregator" To Capture RSS Feeds: A Technology For Keeping Up-To-Date, a very interesting article by Bell Steven. I carefully read through it and I realized that life is easier for those who master technology (I’m clearly experiencing it now in my work!).
Last week, I had a look also to the site of npr, which Sarah suggested us. I had a look at this site because I could find much information on:
- News
- Politics and society
- Business
- People and places
- Health and science
- Books
- Music
- Arts and culture
- Diversions
- Opinions
In addition, I can also access hourly news summaries and 24-hours programme stream. It’ amazing! It’s a good way to improve my English, to be constantly up-to-date and have fun!
Finally, as you can guess from the title of my post, I want to point out what is special about Bloglines:
- I can effortlessly blend and monitor the development of my peer’s personal blogs
- I can add to my personal playlist whatever I like
- I don’t have to be an expert blogger to find a way to check everything I need without getting lost
- I can be an active explorer of blogs and save them in new playlists, giving them a title
- I can learn real-world English by accessing information on the web
- I can be inspired by fresh and exciting contents I read on the blogs
- Therefore it’s easy for me to do my work and to save time.
Before leaving, here it is a little piece of wisdom, just for you!
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself!
(Chinese proverb)
See you!
Martina
