Friday, March 14, 2008

Wk 1 MLA CE -- Blogs/RSS

My brain is learning many new things and I am sure it will continue to be stretched these next 7 weeks. These past couple of days I have been logging on to the course blog to keep absorbing the information given.
I have occasionally looked at a few blogs I have marked in my "favorites/bookmarks" but I don't yet reguarly read any. Maybe with this new RSS feature I am using I will more. I just often have "information overload". Emails from work and home, listservs, and such I don't see how people keep up with everything. I am signed up for RSS with IE and have been reviewing a few TOCs I have from a few journals, but this is also still new too me.
For this class I am going to use Google Reader for RSS feeds and Blogger for my Blog account.
I wish I felt that I understood everything better, but I am sure with time I will get more comfortable with it all.
The toughest part for me this week was getting use to moving around in my "google account". Once logged into it you can use email, Google reader, blogger etc. but moving from each of these things doesn't go seemless for me yet.
I have enjoyed reading the comments from others. I see that others are learning too. I haven't yet posted to the course blog, but will in the coming week.

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