Thing 2

I chose to use the bloglines tool for my RSS feeds. I had seen the letters RSS before but had never really looked at what they stood for. I had to laugh a little that they stand for "Really Simple Syndication." May as well tell it like it is. This tool only took me a few minutes to set up. I spent more time looking through other blogs and trying to decide what to subscribe to. I really like the set up. I used to use a few different blog type sites and I wish I would have known about this then. I think that this will be useful as you can subscribe to so many types of sites it will be nice to use this to follow a number of topics I enjoy learning about. It will also be helpful in the crafting groups I try to follow. I have just been logging on periodically to see if other people had updated anything.
I think that if instructors and media specialist libraries could make good use of this tool. When I was at SCSU there were a number of times that I would get all the way to class to find out that it was canceled. Had sites like this been utilized someone could have posted that the instructor was ill and the students could have learned this before getting to campus. Also media libraries could keep people informed of any updates or changes they have made. With our lives as busy as they are, it would be nice to get updates without having to take a lot of time to find out that nothing has changed.