Lesson 5

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 favorite sites?

I visit my friends' blogs and mixi. I visit my favorite sites regularly.

Explore
A website that displays a button similar to the ones here on the right has an RSS feed that you can subscribe to. Visit a few of the sites that you use fairly regularly (4~5 is fine). Now, can you find an RSS button? You might need to scroll down the page, and you will need to look carefully if it is a 'busy' page. Which of your favorite sites provide an RSS feed? Which ones don't? Can you think why not?

My favorite sites almost provide an RSS feed. However, sites which use CGS to make thier diary, it does not have an RSS.

Explain
Write a post reflecting on RSS with reference to the four Key Questions.
Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?

The skill to look sites carefully.

2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?

It makes us not to visit sites regularly.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?

It saves our times.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?

Understanding, reading, and writing skills.