One problem with the Internet is
that there is so much information that it is easy for someone to get
information overload. Millions of blogs,
websites and social media networks can sometimes make someone feel overwhelmed. I can completely understand this
feeling. I have learned about hundreds
of new resources and blogs while progressing through the Instructional Media
program and I have honestly felt overwhelmed with all of the information. I am
quite familiar with technology and I am a self-proclaimed nerd. If all of this information makes me nervous,
I can’t imagine those who are not so familiar. Aggregation tools can help calm
this feeling of being overwhelmed!
I
have a handful of blogs that I check out quite frequently. Some of these blogs are educational like
edutopia, and others are to fulfill my nerdy nature (like macrumors). I also follow a ton of political and paleo
blogs too. I haven’t really expanded my
blog reading beyond about 5-10 sites because it does get overwhelming trying to
keep everything organized. I enjoyed
using feedly and I added all of my favorite blogs. I like how you can read all of your favorite
blogs all in one place. You can also
keep all of your blogs organized by category and not have to worry about
finding the URL for a blog that you wanted to read daily.
Not
only can I see using feedly.com to develop my own network and educational
toolbox, but I can see how feedly and other aggregation tools like pinterest in
the classroom. I could create a
teacher’s communication blog to help communicate information to students and
parents. I can use it to communicate
project due dates, and resources to be used for papers or projects. It can be used to organize all sorts of information.
If I was doing a project on current events, I could have the students use RSS
feeds to aggregate news articles from different sources to analyze media biases
and news events!
www.feedly.com
www.pinterest.com
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