When I was growing up and my maternal grandmother was visiting us, my mom would tell us to go and do our home-work reading to Granny Vi. We hated this, because she would ask us the meaning of each word we read and if we didn't know - we had to look it up in the dictionary!! Recently, I have thought often of Granny Vi, every time I say to someone 'just google it'!! There is so much information out there to help us answer so many questions we have in our day to day lives, that in many ways 'google' has become our best friend. It is not called "The Information Superhighway" for nothing! I am sure Granny Vi would have loved the internet and I know that as a kid I would have much preferred to be able to look up meanings of words on google than in a dictionary!!
But, do you ever feel bombarded with TOO MUCH INFORMATION? We can find and read far more than we have time to read in a day. So, how do we decide what to read? How do we sift through the mountains of web pages to find what is really of interest to us, what is really important for us to know?
One internet tool that helps us do this is RSS feeds. I am sure you will recognise this logo.
Check out the following links and then answer the questions/ do the exercise below to help you understand what RSS feeds and RSS aggregators are and how you can use them to filter and find the information you want to on the internet.
- What does the acronym RSS stand for?
- What is an RSS feed?
- Find an RSS feed that you would be interested in following
- Add an RSS feed gadget to your blog - linking the feed you found above to your blog
- What is an RSS aggregator (one example is called feedly) ?
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