Weekly Report & Reflection blog post #3

This weeks activities with feedly readers have been great! in just a few steps I've learned so much and have gotten acquainted with the tool very quickly. Many of my subscriptions deal with education, specifically for college students. One that I have been paying most attention to is the 'Living a Successful College Life' blog. In this blog it discussed how it is very easy for us students to feel overwhelmed and stressed but t in order to overcome such behaviors, we should help our minds by simply doing the tasks we have to do. The author expresses that "brain-dumping" is probably the best way to keep students from feeling overwhelmed. At the same time, students should "relax & START", do the work little by little and before you know it majority of the tasks are done and your stress free. As a student I know this is one thing that I struggle with at times that is why I strongly encourage students of this class to follow this blog, it will be beneficial in your studies.

Permalink: http://studysuccessful.com/start/

RSS Feed Readers contribute to my work in building knowledge about digital literacy, responsibility, and citizenship. This is because in today's media rich environments we must expand our knowledge, values and most importantly critical thinking which is central to both digital and media literacy. There are tons of available resources online and the RSS Feeds are a great way to get these resources on just one website. This not only allows learners to collect and organize their feeds, but to also discover much about the world and others thoughts on certain topics.

Additionally, in terms of digital citizenship RSS Feeds conveniently and consistently displays many news articles and blog posts making it easy for me to see what popular topics are being discussed daily. Through these posts I am able to grab a sense of what the authors are like and if I click on relating topics of that author I am able to see even more things they have written. All this to say, it that it is important to keep a positive digital citizenship in order for bloggers to have returning readers and followers. RSS Feeds have helped me to personalize my own educational needs. It helps me to organize my thoughts and interests that best matches my learning style.

Moving on, RSS Feeds are aggregate tools that help you to be organized with the way you learn. It is a tool meant to bring you educational convenience by providing users with the option to categorize specific tools otherwise known as "subscription tools". On my PLE diagram I have categories such as collaborate, organize, and aggregate, on my PLE I would place RSS Feeds in the organization category being that I have categories on my RSS Feed that correspond with those on my PLE.

As I continue using my RSS Feed reader, I hope to learn a lot of new things that I can apply to my personal experiences and share them with other readers!