Lesson5:Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

Think
Which sites do you visit regularly? What provisions do you currently make to keep yourself up to date on new content posted to your favourite sites?
I visit regularly blogs, news sites, w3, mixi, and online tool such as Gmail, RSS reader, Alc(online simple Japanese-English dictionary), and Weblio(online Japanese thesaurus). I save online tools on bookmark toolbar of Portable Firefox, and I use RSS reader for blogs and news site. Yet now I have to reduce the number of RSS feeds I subscribe because sometimes it takes long to load the page of RSS reader.

Explore
Which of your favourite sites provide an RSS feed? Which ones don't? Can you think why not?
Blogs and news sites provides RSS feeds but online tools and old pages don't. It might be caused by the difference of its contents and the newness of the RSS system.

Explain
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
The skill to assess the importance and property of each Web page is needed to use RSS reader efficiently. Too much feeds will be the stumbling block to get the information on timely basis.

2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
RSS saves our time, opportunity to get new information, and the cost to access Web pages in vain.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
I assume that many journalist and the management actively use RSS feed to keep up to date with daily, international news and others ideas posted on blogs.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
Skimming and scanning skills may promote to get information by RSS especially feeds from news sites.