Tuesday, December 11, 2012

(4) Becoming More Informationally Literate

Literacy begins simply with understanding. There were mainly technologies that I had used before taking this class, but there were a couple I had little to no knowledge about. After being shown how Prezis work as well as being hands on and creating a presentation with it gave me a very solid understanding of it, and I’ve even made a few more since being taught. 

Another form of technology I had sparse knowledge of was RSS feeds and Google Reader. I have experience in blogging and I understood what RSS is coming in to the class, but I had never subscribed to a feed before. I found that assignment, using Blogger and Google Reader, to be one of the most enjoyable and interesting for me. Google Reader is just crazy to me because it’s so simple at the surface but once you start getting deeper and deeper into it there’s really so much to it (as shown in the “How To Use Google Reader” resource). Even if it’s not in an academic setting, I can now use Google Reader to be a much more informed individual which is incredibly important to me.

Citation: Noah, D. (n.d.). How to use google reader. Retrieved from http://www.ehow.com/videos-on_5132_use-google-reader.html

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