After spending all of last week at an important conference in Chicago and most of the weekend exploring that beautiful city for the first time, and trying to keep up with the first week assignments the whole time, I am excited to be back to my "real life" and to get caught up on work and on this course in a more relaxed manner (well, as relaxed as a 6 week summer course can be!).
I tried and tried to find a good RSS reader that worked as a Chrome extension, but based on the reviews most of the free versions, they weren't really worth it so I decided to go with the free version of feedly.com. Getting everyone's URLs loaded up took some time but I am thankful for the time the reader will save me in the long run in terms of keeping up with my classmates' blog posts. It will be my first time using an RSS feed reader so I'm exited to add a new skill to my Web 2.0 repertoire. I also added a Pinterest board to collect all of the resources that we explore or that classmates mention. I am an early adopter of Pinterst and avid user (with around 19,000 pins so far!) So I feel that this would be great way to keep a dedicated list with links that I can consult and also share with others. This blog will be a good way to keep up with resources as I discuss and explore them, but it won't be as succinct and concise a list as my Pinterest board will be. Plus I would like to collect all resources there, not just those I choose to explore and discuss here. That way I can still revisit the list once the class is over and continue to investigate other resources.
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Vanessa
7/5/2017 05:36:45 pm
OK, clearly you are our resident Pinterest expert. Week 3 ... help us out! :)
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