Lesson 5

Think:
1. 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? (SCICU e-Portfolio)


I do not have my specific favorite site to visit, thus I usually use portal site only Yahoo! Japan.
I do not know any provision to keep myself up to date and I always visit Yahoo every single time to keep my self up to date.

Explore:
Which of your favourite sites provide an RSS feed? Which ones don't? Can you think why not? (SCICU e-Portfolio)


1.Yahoo has many variety of RSS feeds, such as inform ation about DVD and Cars.
On MSN Japan, I couldn't find any RSS feeds.
International Herald Tribune had each categorized news for RSS feeds.
You Tube didn't have any RSS.

The differnce of two portal site, Yahoo and MSN is unclear and It's very simillar site but I found that the contents of Yahoo is more various than MSN. It might be unnecessary for MSN's content to attract its reader by RSS. I think its depends on the content of the site if there is the RSS feeds or not such as YOU TUBE to IHT. For instance, IHT is a news paper site and YOU tube has log in.


EXPLAIN:
Write a post reflecting on RSS with reference to the four Key Questions. (SCICU e-Portfolio)

Social Computing Key Questions:

1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
RSS　only requires simple skill to find the tab for subscribing, but Google Reader requires to learn new format of the software.

2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
RSS helps users to be up to date regulary not visiting the site or page. Although, It sends a lot of useless information too. The content of the RSS should be chosen carefully.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
Choosing specific information carefully which is important for user to have updated regulary is very important to manage the RSS professionally.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
RSS is very usefull to if it is managed propery to get new information regulary up dated.
It is imprtant to know that too overwhelming addings to RSS makes the tool useless!