Learning in a Digital Context ADED 1P32: My Experience with RSS Feeds

The internet is a vast expanse of knowledge and information, it is just a matter of extracting that information to use it. Throughout all of my experiences with the internet, it always started with either looking at a website that I used many times before or opening up Google and searching for my topic of interest and skimming through suggested results. In this week's session of "Learning in a Digital Context" we learned about RSS feeds and how they can be used to subscribe to websites that interest us and it will send updated articles and changes to the websites to one location. For this activity, we used an RSS reader called Feedly. I had never heard of an RSS feed, much less Feedly, but this week was by far the most interesting week of the semester thus far.

Having customized my Feedly feed, I was able to look through articles from various news sources as well as articles geared towards university and college students. Of the articles that populated my feed, I found that one was particularly interesting and had a strong connection to online courses specifically. The article is on the importance of organization to achieve success in school, but it doesn't only address that organizational behaviour is important, it gives some suggestions about improving organization skills.

Organization Brings Success

I hope you have enjoyed reading about my first experience with RSS and I will be back soon with my weekly reflection. If you have never tried an RSS reader before I would highly recommend that you give Feedly a try, you won't be disappointed.

Feedly