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Its funny I've seen that little orange square that looks like the symbol for a wifi connection on a number of websites but have never stopped to ask myself what it does or even what is stands for. The idea and functionality behind RSS and newsreader is no doubt genius but for someone like me, who doesn't use the internet much, it lacks any real benefit. I mostly only use the internet to check my email and Facebook and go on live text and D2l to complete my assignments. Of course I also use it as a research tool and to order things from Amazon and other clothing sites, but as far as keeping up with sites, I don't. I added TMZ and Perezhilton to my feedly account only because when I was younger I used to go on these sites quite a bit but haven't been on either in 4+ years. I also added epic fail to my feedly account because I have been on it a few times in the past and have always found it pretty entertaining, I added one food blog, smitten kitchen, because of its popularity and mouthwatering pictures. Lastly I added the cool cat teacher blog to my reader because it looked the most interesting out of the suggested sites we should add to our feedly account.
Although I don't have any use for RSS and other news readers in my personal life, I can definitely see the benefit for teachers! I mentioned in a previous post that I'd like my students to keep a weekly blog for personal reflection in a effort to get them writing and like the idea that by subscribing to their blogs I would get notified whenever a new post is made.
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