Saturday, March 9, 2013

Newsreader

I have never tried the newsreader before, and find it a bit off-putting. I don't really keep up with a lot of blogs or online media, other than my NY Times account. I am old-fashioned enough to subscribe to an actual newspaper and read it every morning! But I set up an account and subscribed to a couple of general news feeds, such as Huff Post. And then I found a couple of museum blogs for the New-York Historical Society and the American Antiquarian Society, and set up those subscriptions. I teach public history courses, so I thought those could be useful. It was easy enough to subscribe, but I'm not sure how much I will really use this tool. Time will tell, I guess. I cannot think offhand of how I could use it for teaching; perhaps in a public history course I could have students subscribe to a museum blog?
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  1. DrKgMarch 17, 2013 at 9:08 PM

    Hi, Ellen:

    Thanks for persvering with the tools!

    One thing you could do is have a blog, and have students sign up for updates via GoogleReader or another aggregator, to make their use of it more efficient. OR - even if you are not using a blog in the course - if students were lurking on relevant blogs and using RSS to efficiently keep up with it...this may be relevant (your museum blog example).

    I think that the power of the tool is from a productivity angle, for either you or the student. For example, having students subscribe to venues that have rapidly changing content, to keep up with topics of interest or merit (related to the course, of course, haha) could convince them of the functionality of the tool. I think that we have a long way to go with many of our students, to have them use the tools to increase their efficiency both in accessing content and curating (filtering) it for various purposes. The more practice they get, across learning and using "jobs," the better?!

    Thanks for your TOEP participation!
    ~kg

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